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From: DPAA NCR OC Mailbox Public Affairs <dpaa.ncr.oc.mbx.public-affairs@mail.mil>
Greetings, S2c George was accounted for in January 2017, but his family only recently received their full briefing on his identification, which is why this release is going out now. ----------------- The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that Navy Seaman 2nd Class (S2c) George T. George, 26, of St. Louis, Missouri, killed during World War II, was accounted for on Jan. 26, 2017. On Dec. 7, 1941, George was assigned to the battleship USS Oklahoma, which was moored at Ford Island, Pearl Harbor, when the ship was attacked by Japanese aircraft. The USS Oklahoma sustained multiple torpedo hits, which caused it to quickly capsize. The attack on the ship resulted in the deaths of 429 crewmen, including S2c George. From December 1941 to June 1944, Navy personnel recovered the remains of the deceased crew, which were subsequently interred in the Halawa and Nu’uanu Cemeteries. In September 1947, tasked with recovering and identifying fallen U.S. personnel in the Pacific Theater, members of the American Graves Registration Service (AGRS) disinterred the remains of U.S. casualties from the two cemeteries and transferred them to the Central Identification Laboratory at Schofield Barracks. The laboratory staff was only able to confirm the identifications of 35 men from the USS Oklahoma at that time. The AGRS subsequently buried the unidentified remains in 46 plots at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific (NMCP), known as the Punchbowl, in Honolulu. In October 1949, a military board classified those who could not be identified as non-recoverable, including George. In April 2015, the Deputy Secretary of Defense issued a policy memorandum directing the disinterment of unknowns associated with the USS Oklahoma. On June 15, 2015, DPAA personnel began exhuming the remains from the NMCP for analysis. To identify George’s remains, scientists from DPAA and the Armed Forces Medical Examiner System used mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) analysis, dental analysis, as well as circumstantial and material evidence. Of the 16 million Americans who served in World War II, more than 400,000 died during the war. Currently there are 72,766 (approximately 26,000 are assessed as possibly-recoverable) still unaccounted for from World War II. George’s name is recorded on the Walls of the Missing at the Punchbowl, along with the others who are missing from WWII. A rosette will be placed next to his name to indicate he has been accounted for. S2c George will be buried in the Punchbowl, on May 13, 2024.
For funeral details and family contact information, contact the Navy Casualty Office at (901) 874-2438. For additional information on the Defense Department’s mission to account for Americans who went missing while serving our country, visit the DPAA website at www.dpaa.mil, find us on social media at www.facebook.com/dodpaa or call (703) 699-1420/1169. George’s personnel profile can be viewed at https://dpaa.secure.force.com/dpaaProfile?id=a0Jt0000000XhCOEA0 |
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From: DPAA NCR OC Mailbox Public
Affairs <dpaa.ncr.oc.mbx.public-affairs@mail.mil>
Greetings, PFC Lopa was accounted for in July 2023, but his family only recently received their full briefing on his identification, which is why this release is going out now. ----------------- The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Army Pvt. 1st Class (Pfc.) Anthony J. Lopa, 17, of North Arlington, New Jersey, who was killed during the Korean War, was accounted for July 21, 2023. In July 1950, Lopa was a member of Delta Battery, 82nd Antiaircraft Artillery Automatic Weapons (Self Propelled) Battalion, 2nd Infantry Division. He was killed in action fighting the North Korean People’s Army along the Naktong River, in the vicinity of Yongsan-Myeon, South Korea, on August 31, 1950. Due to the intense fighting in the region, his body could not be recovered at that time.
A set of remains was recovered near Amp’yong, South Korea, in March 1951. They could not be initially identified and were designated X-2023 C Tanggok, and buried in the United Nations Cemetery Tanggok later that month. In August 1951, the Central Identification Unit Kokura in Japan began a reexamination of X-2023 C. They made several attempts between then and August 1954 before ultimately declaring the remains unidentifiable. All 848 unidentified sets of Korean War remains at CIU-Kokura were sent to Hawaii in 1956 where they were buried at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, known as the Punchbowl, in Honolulu.
In July 2018, the DPAA proposed a plan to disinter 652 Korean War Unknowns from the Punchbowl. In May 2021, DPAA disinterred Unknown X-2023 C as part of Phase Two of the Korean War Disinterment Project and sent the remains to the DPAA laboratory for analysis.
To identify Lopa’s remains, scientists from DPAA used dental and anthropological analysis, as well as chest radiograph comparison and circumstantial evidence. Additionally, scientists from the Armed Forces Medical Examiner System used mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) analysis.
Lopa’s name is recorded on the Courts of the Missing at the Punchbowl, along with the others who are still missing from the Korean War. A rosette will be placed next to his name to indicate he has been accounted for.
Pfc. Lopa will be buried in Wrightstown, New Jersey, on a date to be determined.
For family and funeral information, contact the Army Casualty Office at (800) 892-2490.
To see the most up-to-date statistics on DPAA recovery efforts for those unaccounted for from the Korean War, go to the Korean War Accounting page on the DPAA website at: https://dpaa-mil.sites.crmforce.mil/dpaaFamWebKorean.
For additional information on the Defense Department’s mission to account for Americans who went missing while serving our country, visit the DPAA website at www.dpaa.mil, find us on social media at www.facebook.com/dodpaa or https://www.linkedin.com/company/defense-pow-mia-accounting-agency.
Lopa’s personnel profile can be viewed at https://dpaa-mil.sites.crmforce.mil/dpaaProfile?id=a0Jt00000120sUtEAI |
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POW Gets a Pair of Jump Boots, the Best Gift a WWII Vet Could Want Soldier Accounted for from Korean War (Yde, E.) Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Army Capt. Erik F. Yde, 32, of San Francisco, California, killed during the ...
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From: Duran, Robert J SFC USARMY DPAA OC
(USA) <robert.j.duran8.mil@mail.mil>
Greetings,
Em3c Brown was accounted for in March 2022, but his family only recently received their full briefing on his identification, which is why this release is going out now. ----------------- The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that Navy Electrician’s Mate 3rd Class (Em3c) Charles D. Brown, 22, of Arcola, Illinois, killed during World War II, was accounted for on March 22, 2021.
On Dec. 7, 1941, Brown was assigned to the battleship USS West Virginia, which was moored at Ford Island, Pearl Harbor, when the ship was attacked by Japanese aircraft. The USS West Virginia sustained multiple torpedo hits, but timely counter-flooding measures taken by the crew prevented it from capsizing, and it came to rest on the shallow harbor floor. The attack on the ship resulted in the deaths of 106 crewmen, including Brown.
During efforts to salvage the USS West Virginia, Navy personnel recovered the remains of the deceased crewmen, representing at least 66 individuals. Those who could not be identified, including Brown, were interred as unknowns at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, known as the Punchbowl, in Honolulu.
From June through October 2017, DPAA, in cooperation with cemetery officials, disinterred 35 caskets, reported to be associated with the USS West Virginia from the Punchbowl and transferred the remains to the DPAA laboratory.
To identify Brown’s remains, scientists from DPAA used dental and anthropological analysis. Additionally, scientists from the Armed Forces Medical Examiner System used mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA), and autosomal DNA (auSTR) analysis.
Brown’s name is recorded on the Walls of the Missing at the Punchbowl, along with the others who are missing from WWII. A rosette will be placed next to his name to indicate he has been accounted for.
Brown will be buried on April 20, 2024, in Humboldt, Illinois.
For family and funeral information, contact the Navy Service Casualty office at (800) 443-9298.
DPAA is grateful to the Department of Veterans Affairs and the Department of the Navy for their partnership in this mission.
For additional information on the Defense Department’s mission to account for Americans who went missing while serving our country, visit the DPAA website at www.dpaa.mil, or find us on social media at www.facebook.com/dodpaa or https://www.linkedin.com/company/defense-pow-mia-accounting-agency.
Brown’s personnel profile can be viewed at https://dpaa-mil.sites.crmforce.mil/dpaaProfile?id=a0Jt00000004mqQEAQ |
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From:
DPAA NCR OC Mailbox Public Affairs <dpaa.ncr.oc.mbx.public-affairs@mail.mil>
Greetings, Sgt. Seiferheld was accounted for in February, but his family only recently received their full briefing on his identification, which is why this release is going out now. ---------- The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Army Air Forces Sgt. Frank J. Seiferheld, 25, of New York, New York, killed during World War II, was accounted for Feb. 12, 2024. In January of 1945, Seiferheld was assigned to the 348th Bombardment Squadron (Heavy), 99th Bombardment Group (Heavy), 15th Air Force in the Mediterranean and European Theater of Operations. On Jan 20, Seiferheld was the radio operator onboard a B-17 “Flying Fortress,” when it experienced engine trouble after departing Italy for a bombing raid on an oil depot near Regensburg, Germany. According to records of the mission, the pilot radioed that they were returning to the Tortorella Airfield without a fighter escort. The last sighting of Seiferheld’s aircraft was West of Udine, Italy, roughly 45 miles North of the Gulf of Trieste. Beginning in 1945, the American Graves Registration Command (AGRC), Army Quartermaster Corps, was the organization tasked with recovering missing American personnel in the European Theater. Following the war, the AGRC discovered the remains of an unknown servicemember in the Gulf of Trieste, roughly 100 yards from the shoreline in Grado, Italy. At the time they were unable to identify Sgt. Seiferheld and the remains were interred in the Florence American Cemetery as Unknown X-83. In 2018, DPAA investigators and American Battle Monuments Commission personnel exhumed the remains of X-83 for comparison with unresolved servicemembers. The remains were sent to the DPAA laboratory for analysis and identification. To identify Seiferheld’s remains, scientists from DPAA used anthropological analysis. Additionally, scientists from the Armed Forces Medical Examiner System used mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) analysis. Seiferheld’s name is memorialized on the Tablets of the Missing at the Florence American Cemetery, an American Battle Monuments Commission site in Impruneta, Italy, along with others still missing from WWII. A rosette will be placed next to his name to indicate he has been accounted for. Sgt. Seiferheld will be buried in Arlington National Cemetery, on a date and time to be determined by the family. For family and funeral information, contact the Army Casualty Office at (800) 892-2490. For additional information on the Defense Department’s mission to account for Americans who went missing while serving our country, visit the DPAA website at www.dpaa.mil or find us on social media at www.facebook.com/dodpaa or https://www.linkedin.com/company/defense-pow-mia-accounting-agency |
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From:
DPAA NCR OC Mailbox Public Affairs <dpaa.ncr.oc.mbx.public-affairs@mail.mil>
Greetings, CPT Yde was accounted for in June 2023, but his family only recently received their full briefing on his identification, which is why this release is going out now. --------- The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Army Capt. Erik F. Yde, 32, of San Francisco, California, killed during the Korean War, was accounted for June 22, 2023. In June 1950, Yde was a member of Headquarters, Headquarters Battery, 503rd Field Artillery Battalion, 2nd Infantry Division. Yde was captured as a prisoner of war (POW) after his unit was forced to retreat from Wonju in the vicinity of Hoengsong, South Korea. Due to intense fighting in the area, Yde was separated from his unit and was last seen attempting to penetrate an enemy roadblock. In 1953, several POWs returned during Operation Big Switch reported Yde had been a prisoner of war and died in June, 1951, at Prisoner of War Camp #1. In the fall of 1953, during Operation Glory, North Korea returned remains reportedly recovered from Changsong, also known as Prisoner of War Camp #1, to the United Nations Command. However, Yde’s name did not appear on any of the transfer rosters and the Central Identification Unit in Kokura, Japan, did not associate any repatriated remains with him. Yde was determined non-recoverable in January 1956. In July 2018, the DPAA proposed a plan to disinter 652 Korean War Unknowns from the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, known as the Punchbowl, in Honolulu. In January 2020, the DPAA disinterred Unknown X-14275, a set of remains returned during Operation Glory, as part of Phase Two of the Korean War Disinterment Plan and sent the remains to the DPAA laboratory for analysis. To identify Yde’s remains, scientists from DPAA used dental and anthropological analysis, as well as chest radiograph comparison and circumstantial evidence. Additionally, scientists from the Armed Forces Medical Examiner System used mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) analysis. Capt. Yde’s name is recorded on the Courts of the Missing at the Punchbowl, along with the others who are still missing from the Korean War. A rosette will be placed next to his name to indicate he has been accounted for. Capt. Yde will be buried in Walnut Creek, California, on April 29, 2024. For family and funeral information, contact the Army Casualty Office at (800) 892-2490. To see the most up-to-date statistics on DPAA recovery efforts for those unaccounted for from the Korean War, go to the Korean War Accounting page on the DPAA website at: https://dpaa-mil.sites.crmforce.mil/dpaaFamWebKorean. For additional information on the Defense Department’s mission to account for Americans who went missing while serving our country, visit the DPAA website at www.dpaa.mil, find us on social media at www.facebook.com/dodpaa or https://www.linkedin.com/company/defense-pow-mia-accounting-agency. Yde’s personnel profile can be viewed at https://dpaa-mil.sites.crmforce.mil/dpaaProfile?id=a0Jt00000004q8KEA |
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From:
DPAA NCR OC Mailbox Public Affairs <dpaa.ncr.oc.mbx.public-affairs@mail.mil>
Greetings, CPL Benak was accounted for in September 2023, but his family only recently received their full briefing on his identification, which is why this release is going out now. ---------- The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Army Cpl. Frank V. Benak, 24, of Scottsville, Michigan, killed during World War II, was accounted for on February 2, 2024. In December 1942, Benak was assigned to Cannon Company, 128th Infantry Regiment, 32nd Infantry Division, and deployed in present day Papua New Guinea. As part of an attempt to neutralize the Japanese threat near the town of Buna, Benak’s unit attacked enemy defensive positions in northern Papua. Benak was reported as missing in action on Dec. 5, while on a combat patrol near Buna Creek. Following the war, the American Graves Registration Service (AGRS), the military unit responsible for investigating and recovering missing American personnel in the Pacific Theater, conducted exhaustive searches of battle areas and crash sites in New Guinea, concluding their search in late 1948. A set of remains, initially found in 1944 near where Benak was killed, could not be positively identified, and he was later declared non-recoverable September 1949. The unidentified remains from Papua New Guinea were eventually interred as Unknowns at Fort McKinley Cemetery, now Manila American Cemetery and Memorial, an American Battle Monuments Commission site in the Philippines. DPAA predecessor organizations began researching and recovering service members from Papua New Guinea in 1995. In May 2012, Australian Defence Force personnel looking for unresolved casualties near Buna, observed an identification tag (“dog tag”) belonging to Cpl. Benak in the possession of a village leader at Buna. Years of investigation led to the disinterment of a set of remains from Manila American Cemetery, X-168 Finschhafen #2 in January 2017. The remains were sent to the DPAA Laboratory for review and analysis. To identify Benak’ remains, scientists from DPAA used dental and anthropological analysis, as well as circumstantial evidence. Additionally, scientists from the Armed Forces Medical Examiner System used mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) and autosomal DNA (auSTR) analysis. Benak’ name is recorded on the Walls of the Missing at the Manila American Cemetery and Memorial, along with others still missing from WWII. A rosette will be placed next to his name to indicate he has been accounted for. Cpl. Benak will be buried on April 13, 2024, in Miami, Florida. For family and funeral information, contact the Army Casualty Office at (800) 892-2490. DPAA is grateful to the American Battle Monuments Commission for their partnership in this mission. DPAA is also grateful to the Australian Defence Force for their steadfast support to help identify our unaccounted for members. For additional information on the Defense Department’s mission to account for Americans who went missing while serving our country, visit the DPAA website at www.dpaa.mil, find us on social media at www.facebook.com/dodpaa or https://www.linkedin.com/company/defense-pow-mia-accounting-agency. Benak’ personnel profile can be viewed at https://dpaa-mil.sites.crmforce.mil/dpaaProfile?id=a0Jt0000000XfLJEA0 |
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From:
DPAA NCR OC Mailbox Public Affairs <dpaa.ncr.oc.mbx.public-affairs@mail.mil>
Greetings, Matt3c Walker was accounted for in November 2023, but his family only recently received their full briefing on his identification, which is why this release is going out now. ---------- The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that Mess Attendant 3rd Class (Matt3c) David Walker, 19, of Norfolk, Virginia, killed during World War II, was accounted for on November 27, 2023. On Dec. 7, 1941, Walker was assigned to the battleship USS California, which was moored at Ford Island, Pearl Harbor, when the ship was attacked by Japanese aircraft. The USS California sustained multiple torpedo and bomb hits, which caused it catch fire and slowly flood. The attack on the ship resulted in the deaths of 103 crewmen, including Walker. From December 1941 to April 1942, Navy personnel recovered the remains of the deceased crew, which were subsequently interred in the Halawa and Nu’uanu Cemeteries. In September 1947, tasked with recovering and identifying fallen U.S. personnel in the Pacific Theater, members of the American Graves Registration Service (AGRS) disinterred the remains of U.S. casualties from the two cemeteries and transferred them to the Central Identification Laboratory at Schofield Barracks. In addition to the 42 casualties from the USS California initially identified after the attack, the laboratory staff was only able to confirm the identifications of 39 men from the USS California at that time. The AGRS subsequently buried the unidentified remains at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific (NMCP), known as the Punchbowl, in Honolulu. In October 1949, a military board classified the remains of the unresolved crew members, including Walker, as non-recoverable. In 2018, DPAA personnel exhumed the 25 USS California Unknowns from the Punchbowl for analysis. To identify Walker’s remains, scientists from DPAA used anthropological and dental analysis. Additionally, scientists from the Armed Forces Medical Examiner System used mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) analysis. Walker’s name is recorded on the Walls of the Missing at the Punchbowl, along with the others who are missing from WWII. A rosette will be placed next to his name to indicate he has been accounted for. Walker will be buried on September 5, 2024, in Arlington National Cemetery. For family and funeral information, contact the Navy Service Casualty office at (800) 443-9298 DPAA is grateful to the Department of Veterans Affairs and the Department of the Navy for their partnership in this mission. For additional information on the Defense Department’s mission to account for Americans who went missing while serving our country, visit the DPAA website at www.dpaa.mil or find us on social media at www.facebook.com/dodpaa or https://www.linkedin.com/company/defense-pow-mia-accounting-agency. Walker’s personnel profile can be viewed at https://dpaa-mil.sites.crmforce.mil/dpaaProfile?id=a0Jt000000rhE01EA |
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From:
DPAA NCR OC Mailbox Public Affairs <dpaa.ncr.oc.mbx.public-affairs@mail.mil>
Greetings, SGT Herrick was accounted for in August 2023, but his family only recently received their full briefing on his identification, which is why this release is going out now. ---------- The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Army Sgt. John O. Herrick, 19, of Emporia, Kansas, killed during World War II, was accounted for Aug. 21, 2023. In June 1944, Herrick was assigned to Company B, 149th Engineer Combat Battalion in the European Theater. On June 6, “D-Day”, Herrick was aboard Landing Craft Infantry (Large) 92, along with roughly 200 other servicemembers, enroute to land on Omaha Beach, in Normandy, France. As LCI-92 steamed toward the shore, it struck an underwater mine which caused the craft to burst into flames. The craft was also hit by enemy artillery fire, causing an explosion that ignited the ships fuel stores and instantly killed everyone in the troop compartment. Due to the urgency of the situation, it was impossible for others to search for survivors. Herrick’s remains were not accounted for after the war. Around June 10, members of the 500th Medical Collecting Company examined the wreckage of LCI-92 and noted the burnt remains of servicemen in the troop compartment, where Herrick and others were last seen. American Graves Registration Command (AGRC), the organization that searched for and recovered fallen American personnel in the European Theater, removed small amounts of remains from LCI-92 and buried them in the United States Military Cemetery (USMC) St. Laurent-sur-Mer. Beginning in 1946, AGRC analyzed the remains found in LCI-92, segregating them into four separate Unknowns (X-53, X-83, X-83B, and X-83C). Despite their efforts, AGRC were unable to identify the Unknowns at the time and they were interred in Normandy American Cemetery, an American Battle Monuments Commission site in Normandy, France. In June and August 2021, the Department of Defense and ABMC officials exhumed the comingled remains of the four Unknowns and transferred them to the DPAA Laboratory for analysis. To identify Herrick’s remains, scientists from DPAA used anthropological analysis. Additionally, scientists from the Armed Forces Medical Examiner System used mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) and Y-chromosome DNA (Y-STR) analysis. Herrick’s name is recorded on the Walls of the Missing at Normandy American Cemetery in Colleville-sur-Mer, France, along with others still missing from WWII. A rosette will be placed next to his name to indicate he has been accounted for. Sgt. Herrick will be buried November 11, 2024, in Emporia, Kansas. For family and funeral information, contact the Army Casualty Office at (800) 892-2490. For additional information on the Defense Department’s mission to account for Americans who went missing while serving our country, visit the DPAA website at www.dpaa.mil or find us on social media at www.facebook.com/dodpaa or https://www.linkedin.com/company/defense-pow-mia-accounting-agency. Herrick’s personnel profile can be viewed at https://dpaa-mil.sites.crmforce.mil/dpaaProfile?id=a0Jt0000000XmAlEAK |
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From:
DPAA NCR OC Mailbox Public Affairs <dpaa.ncr.oc.mbx.public-affairs@mail.mil>
Greetings, TSgt Allen was accounted for in September 2023, but his family only recently received their full briefing on his identification, which is why this release is going out now. ---------- The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Army Air Forces Tech. Sgt. Robert Allen, 20, of Oakland, California, killed during World War II, was accounted for Sept. 19, 2023. In August of 1944, Allen was assigned to the 860th Bombardment Squadron, 493rd Bombardment Group, in the European Theater of Operations. On Aug 18, Allen was a crewmember onboard a B-24H “Liberator,” when it was struck by anti-aircraft fire after a bombing raid on a German position near Roye, France. Only one airman survived, while the other eight crew members, including Allen, were killed. German records indicate the bomber crashed roughly two kilometers west of Boussicourt, where the remains of several individuals were recovered and buried in a village cemetery near Pierrepont-sur-Avre, France. Beginning in 1945, the American Graves Registration Command (AGRC), Army Quartermaster Corps, was the organization tasked with recovering missing American personnel in the European Theater. Following the war, the AGRC disinterred and identified six sets of remains recovered from the cemetery at Pierrepont-sur-Avre. At the time they were unable to account for Allen and one other crewmember. In 2018, a DPAA recovery team excavated a site near Boussicourt which they believe correlated with Allen’s crash site. While there, they were able to recover possible remains along with other materials believed to be associated with the B-24H. This new evidence, along with previously unidentified remains, were sent to the DPAA laboratory for analysis and identification. To identify Allen’s remains, scientists from DPAA used anthropological analysis. Additionally, scientists from the Armed Forces Medical Examiner System used mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) analysis. Allen’s name is memorialized on the Tablets of the Missing at Ardennes American Cemetery, an American Battle Monuments Commission site in Neupré, Belgium, along with others still missing from WWII. A rosette will be placed next to his name to indicate he has been accounted for. Tech Sgt. Allen will be buried in Sacramento, California, on July 12, 2024. For family and funeral information, contact the Army Casualty Office at (800) 892-2490. For additional information on the Defense Department’s mission to account for Americans who went missing while serving our country, visit the DPAA website at www.dpaa.mil or find us on social media at www.facebook.com/dodpaa or https://www.linkedin.com/company/defense-pow-mia-accounting-agency Allen’s personnel profile can be viewed at: https://dpaa-mil.sites.crmforce.mil/dpaaProfile?id=a0Jt0000000XmY9EAK |
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From:
DPAA NCR OC Mailbox Public Affairs <dpaa.ncr.oc.mbx.public-affairs@mail.mil>
Greetings, SGT Herrick was accounted for in August 2023, but his family only recently received their full briefing on his identification, which is why this release is going out now. ---------- The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Army Sgt. John O. Herrick, 19, of Emporia, Kansas, killed during World War II, was accounted for Aug. 21, 2023. In June 1944, Herrick was assigned to Company B, 149th Engineer Combat Battalion in the European Theater. On June 6, “D-Day”, Herrick was aboard Landing Craft Infantry (Large) 92, along with roughly 200 other servicemembers, enroute to land on Omaha Beach, in Normandy, France. As LCI-92 steamed toward the shore, it struck an underwater mine which caused the craft to burst into flames. The craft was also hit by enemy artillery fire, causing an explosion that ignited the ships fuel stores and instantly killed everyone in the troop compartment. Due to the urgency of the situation, it was impossible for others to search for survivors. Herrick’s remains were not accounted for after the war. Around June 10, members of the 500th Medical Collecting Company examined the wreckage of LCI-92 and noted the burnt remains of servicemen in the troop compartment, where Herrick and others were last seen. American Graves Registration Command (AGRC), the organization that searched for and recovered fallen American personnel in the European Theater, removed small amounts of remains from LCI-92 and buried them in the United States Military Cemetery (USMC) St. Laurent-sur-Mer. Beginning in 1946, AGRC analyzed the remains found in LCI-92, segregating them into four separate Unknowns (X-53, X-83, X-83B, and X-83C). Despite their efforts, AGRC were unable to identify the Unknowns at the time and they were interred in Normandy American Cemetery, an American Battle Monuments Commission site in Normandy, France. In June and August 2021, the Department of Defense and ABMC officials exhumed the comingled remains of the four Unknowns and transferred them to the DPAA Laboratory for analysis. To identify Herrick’s remains, scientists from DPAA used anthropological analysis. Additionally, scientists from the Armed Forces Medical Examiner System used mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) and Y-chromosome DNA (Y-STR) analysis. Herrick’s name is recorded on the Walls of the Missing at Normandy American Cemetery in Colleville-sur-Mer, France, along with others still missing from WWII. A rosette will be placed next to his name to indicate he has been accounted for. Sgt. Herrick will be buried November 11, 2024, in Emporia, Kansas.
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Forces Tech. Sgt. Paul F. Eshelman Jr. have been identified,
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Noah C. Reeves, who was killed in
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US identifies Alabama
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A hero's story: Prisoner of War
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Remains of Chicago airman
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18-year-old Army corporal who
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Thrall WWII tanker
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Leroy C. Cloud, 24, of Thrall, killed
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Korean War soldier's remains
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Prisoner of war from West
Virginia to be buried in Princeton after 72 years - WCHS
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Accounting Agency has been working since 2018 to
identify the remains of over 600 unknown Korean War
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Family finds closure after
Pearl Harbor sailor identified - Yahoo
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency says all of the unaccounted for
personnel have now been collectively identified.
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From:
DPAA NCR OC Mailbox Public Affairs <dpaa.ncr.oc.mbx.public-affairs@mail.mil>
Sent: 22 March, 2024 12:06
Subject: DPAA News Release - Oklahoma Soldier Accounted for from
Korean War
Greetings,
PFC Smith was accounted for in September 2023, but his family only recently received their full briefing on his identification, which is why this release is going out now.
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The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Army Pvt. 1st Class Jimmy D. Smith, 21, of Muskogee, Oklahoma, killed during the Korean War, was accounted for Sept. 11, 2023.
In July 1950, Smith was a member of Medical Company, 7th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Cavalry Division, Eighth U.S. Army. He was killed in action after his unit engaged in defensive actions near Changchong-ni, Republic of Korea (South Korea), on July 30. Due to intense fighting, his body could not be recovered at that time, and there was never any evidence that he was a prisoner of war. With no further information the Army declared Smith killed in action on July 30, 1950.
In early 1951, the Army began recovering remains from the area and temporarily interred them at the United Nations Military Cemetery (UNMC) Pusan. One set of remains recovered during this period was designated Unknown X-340 Tanggok (X-340), recovered in the vicinity of Nae-dong, South Korea, near where Smith went missing. A tentative association was made between X-340 and Smith, but definitive proof could not be found, and X-340 was determined to be unidentifiable. The remains were sent to Hawaii where they were buried at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, known as the Punchbowl, in Honolulu.
In July 2018, the DPAA proposed a plan to disinter 652 Korean War Unknowns from the Punchbowl. DPAA disinterred Unknown X-340 as part of Phase Two of the Korean War Disinterment Project and sent the remains to the DPAA laboratory for analysis.
To identify Smith’s remains, scientists from DPAA used dental and anthropological analysis, as well as circumstantial evidence. Additionally, scientists from the Armed Forces Medical Examiner System used mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) analysis.
Smith’s name is recorded on the Courts of the Missing at the Punchbowl, along with the others who are still missing from the Korean War. A rosette will be placed next to his name to indicate he has been accounted for.
Pfc. Smith will be buried in Kingsburg, California, on a date to be determined.
For family and funeral information, contact the Army Casualty Office at (800) 892-2490.
To see the most up-to-date statistics on DPAA recovery efforts for those unaccounted for from the Korean War, go to the Korean War Accounting page on the DPAA website at: https://dpaa-mil.sites.crmforce.mil/dpaaFamWebKorean.
For additional information on the Defense Department’s mission to account for Americans who went missing while serving our country, visit the DPAA website at www.dpaa.mil, find us on social media at www.facebook.com/dodpaa or https://www.linkedin.com/company/defense-pow-mia-accounting-agency.
Smith’s personnel profile can be viewed at https://dpaa-mil.sites.crmforce.mil/dpaaProfile?id=a0Jt00000004lZYEAY
From:
DPAA NCR OC Mailbox Public Affairs <dpaa.ncr.oc.mbx.public-affairs@mail.mil>
Sent: 21 March, 2024 10:44
Subject: DPAA News Release - Illinois Soldier Accounted for from
WWII
Greetings,
PVT Poulter was accounted for in January, but his family only recently received their full briefing on his identification, which is why this release is going out now.
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The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Army Pvt. Harold O. Poulter, 23, of Charleston, Illinois, killed during World War II, was accounted for January 17, 2024.
In February 1945, Poulter was assigned to Company G, 2nd Battalion, 318th Infantry Regiment, 80th Infantry Division. His regiment was engaged in fierce fighting near the town of Biesdorf, Germany, when he was reported killed in action by small arms fire on Feb. 8. His body was unable to be recovered due to intense fighting against heavily reinforced German forces on an elevated position. Despite various recovery attempts, Pvt. Poulter’s remains were not accounted for during or after the war.
Following the end of the war, the American Graves Registration Command was tasked with investigating and recovering missing American personnel in Europe. In 1951, remains were recovered from a wooded area southeast of Biesdorf. Remnants of military clothing, an American helmet and ammunition were found, but no identification tags or personal effects were located. The remains were designated X-8517 Neuville and interred at the U.S. Military Cemetery at Tunisia, known today as the North Africa American Cemetery.
In September 2022, Department of Defense and American Battle Monuments Commission (ABMC) personnel exhumed X-8517 Neuville for forensic analysis and comparison with unresolved soldiers known to have been lost in the Biesdorf conflict area. The remains were sent to the DPAA laboratory for identification.
To identify Poulter’s remains, scientists from DPAA used anthropological analysis, as well as circumstantial evidence. Additionally, scientists from the Armed Forces Medical Examiner System used mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) and Y-chromosome DNA (Y-STR) analysis.
Poulter’s name is recorded on the Walls of the Missing at Luxembourg American Cemetery, an ABMC site in Hamm, Luxembourg, along with the others still missing from World War II. A rosette will be placed next to his name to indicate he has been accounted for.
Pvt. Poulter will be buried in Lerna, Illinois, on June 4, 2024.
For family and funeral information, contact the Army Casualty Office at (800) 892-2490.
DPAA is grateful to the American Battle Monuments Commission and to the U.S. Army Regional Mortuary-Europe/Africa for their partnership in this mission.
For additional information on the Defense Department’s mission to account for Americans who went missing while serving our country, visit the DPAA website at www.dpaa.mil, find us on social media at www.facebook.com/dodpaa or https://www.linkedin.com/company/defense-pow-mia-accounting-agency
From:
DPAA NCR OC Mailbox Public Affairs <dpaa.ncr.oc.mbx.public-affairs@mail.mil>
Sent: 19 March, 2024 10:16
Subject: DPAA News Release - Pennsylvania Airman Accounted for
from WWII
Greetings,
TSgt Eshelman was accounted for in September 2023, but his family only recently received their full briefing on his identification, which is why this release is going out now.
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The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Army Air Forces Tech. Sgt. Paul F. Eshelman Jr., 21, of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, killed during World War II, was accounted for Sept. 27, 2023.
In the summer of 1943, Eshelman was assigned to the 344th Bombardment Squadron (Heavy), 98th Bombardment Group (Heavy), 9th Air Force. On Aug. 1, 1943, Eshelman was the radio operator onboard a B-24 Liberator bomber “Tagalong” when it was hit by enemy anti-aircraft fire. The plane crashed during Operation TIDAL WAVE, the largest bombing mission against the oil fields and refineries at Ploiesti, north of Bucharest, Romania. His remains were not identified following the war. The remains that could not be identified were buried as Unknowns in the Hero Section of the Civilian and Military Cemetery of Bolovan, Ploiesti, Prahova, Romania.
Following the war, the American Graves Registration Command (AGRC), the organization that searched for and recovered fallen American personnel, disinterred all American remains from the Bolovan Cemetery for identification. The AGRC was unable to identify more than 80 unknowns from Bolovan Cemetery, and those remains were permanently interred at Ardennes American Cemetery and Henri-Chapelle American Cemetery, both in Belgium.
In 2017, DPAA began exhuming unknowns believed to be associated with unaccounted-for airmen from Operation TIDAL WAVE losses. These remains were sent to the DPAA Laboratory for examination and identification.
To identify Eshelman’ remains, scientists from DPAA used dental and anthropological analysis. Additionally, scientists from the Armed Forces Medical Examiner System used mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) analysis.
Eshelman name is recorded on the Tablets of the Missing at the Florence American Cemetery, an American Battle Monuments Commission site in Impruneta, Italy, along with others still missing from WWII. A rosette will be placed next to his name to indicate he has been accounted for.
Eshelman will be buried in Allison Park, Pennsylvania, on a date to be determined.
For family and funeral information, contact the Army Casualty Office at (800) 892-2490.
DPAA is grateful to the American Battle Monuments Commission and to the U.S. Army Regional Mortuary-Europe/Africa for their partnership in this mission.
For additional information on the Defense Department’s mission to account for Americans who went missing while serving our country, visit the DPAA website at www.dpaa.mil or find us on social media at www.facebook.com/dodpaa or https://www.linkedin.com/company/defense-pow-mia-accounting-agency.
Eshelman’ personnel profile can be viewed at https://dpaa-mil.sites.crmforce.mil/dpaaProfile?id=a0Jt00000004pX7EAI
From:
DPAA NCR OC Mailbox Public Affairs <dpaa.ncr.oc.mbx.public-affairs@mail.mil>
Sent: 18 March, 2024 14:13
Subject: DPAA News Release - Alabama Soldier Accounted
for from WWII
Greetings,
PFC Reeves was accounted for in September 2022, but his family only recently received their full briefing on his identification, which is why this release is going out now.
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The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Army Pfc. Noah C. Reeves, 26, of Moulton, Alabama, killed during World War II, was accounted for Sept. 12, 2022.
In late 1944, Reeves was assigned to Company F, 2nd Battalion, 28th Infantry Regiment, 8th Infantry Division in the European Theater during World War II. His battalion had been engaged with heavily fortified German forces near the town of Vossenack, Germany, in the Hürtgen Forest, when he was reported killed in action on Dec. 6. Shortly after the firefight, both sides held a temporary truce along the Kall River gorge to recover their wounded and dead. A German officer handed over Reeves’ identification tags and pay book, attesting to both his death and recovery by German forces. Members of his unit were not able to recover his body from the Germans before fighting resumed. Pfc. Reeves’ remains were not accounted for following the war.
At the end of the war, the American Graves Registration Command (AGRC) was tasked with investigating and recovering missing American personnel in Europe. They conducted several investigations in the Hürtgen area between 1946 and 1950, but were unable to recover or identify Reeves’ remains. He was declared non-recoverable in November 1951.
In 1948, a set of unidentified remains was discovered in the Hürtgen Forest on the heavily wooded slope of the Kall gorge near Mestrenger Mühle by a German resident. AGRC personnel investigated and recovered the remains, ultimately designating them X-5770. Based on the circumstances of the recovery, they believed this individual had died between November and December 1944, but were not able to scientifically identify the remains. X-5770 was interred in 1949 in what would be named the Ardennes American Cemetery.
Based on research by a DPAA historian in 2021, it was determined that X-5770 could possibly belong to Reeves. The remains, which had been buried in Ardennes American Cemetery, an American Battle Monuments Commission site in Neupré, Belgium, were disinterred in Aug. 2022 and sent to the DPAA laboratory for identification.
To identify Reeves’s remains, scientists from DPAA used anthropological analysis, as well as circumstantial evidence. Additionally, scientists from the Armed Forces Medical Examiner System used mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) and Y chromosome DNA (Y-STR) analysis.
Reeves’s name is recorded on the Walls of the Missing at Netherlands American Cemetery, an American Battle Monuments Commission site in Margraten, Netherlands, along with the others still missing from World War II. A rosette will be placed next to his name to indicate he has been accounted for.
Pfc. Reeves will be buried on a date and location yet to be determined.
For family and funeral information, contact the Army Casualty Office at (800) 892-2490.
DPAA is grateful to the American Battle Monuments Commission and to the U.S. Army Regional Mortuary-Europe/Africa for their partnership in this mission.
For additional information on the Defense Department’s mission to account for Americans who went missing while serving our country, visit the DPAA website at www.dpaa.mil, find us on social media at www.facebook.com/dodpaa or https://www.linkedin.com/company/defense-pow-mia-accounting-agency.
Reeves’s personnel profile can be viewed at https://dpaa-mil.sites.crmforce.mil/dpaaProfile?id=a0Jt0000000XmTOEA0
From:
DPAA NCR OC Mailbox Public Affairs <dpaa.ncr.oc.mbx.public-affairs@mail.mil>
Sent: 18 March, 2024 12:26
Subject: DPAA News Release - USS Oklahoma Sailor from Illinois
Accounted for from WWII
Greetings,
S2c Malek was accounted for in February 2021, but his family only recently received their full briefing on his identification, which is why this release is going out now.
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The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that Navy Seaman 2nd Class Michael Malek, 17, of Chicago, Illinois, killed during World War II, was accounted for on Feb. 24, 2021.
On Dec. 7, 1941, Malek was assigned to the battleship USS Oklahoma, which was moored at Ford Island, Pearl Harbor, when the ship was attacked by Japanese aircraft. The USS Oklahoma sustained multiple torpedo hits, which caused it to quickly capsize. The attack on the ship resulted in the deaths of 429 crewmen, including Malek.
From December 1941 to June 1944, Navy personnel recovered the remains of the deceased crew, which were subsequently interred in the Halawa and Nu’uanu Cemeteries.
In September 1947, tasked with recovering and identifying fallen U.S. personnel in the Pacific Theater, members of the American Graves Registration Service (AGRS) disinterred the remains of U.S. casualties from the two cemeteries and transferred them to the Central Identification Laboratory at Schofield Barracks. The laboratory staff was only able to confirm the identifications of 35 men from the USS Oklahoma at that time. The AGRS subsequently buried the unidentified remains in 46 plots at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific (NMCP), known as the Punchbowl, in Honolulu. In October 1949, a military board classified those who could not be identified as non-recoverable, including Malek.
Between June and November 2015, DPAA personnel exhumed the USS Oklahoma Unknowns from the Punchbowl for analysis.
To identify Malek’s remains, scientists from DPAA used dental and anthropological analysis. Additionally, scientists from the Armed Forces Medical Examiner System used mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) analysis.
Malek’s name is recorded on the Walls of the Missing at the Punchbowl, along with the others who are missing from WWII. A rosette will be placed next to his name to indicate he has been accounted for.
Malek will be buried on June 6, 2024, in the Punchbowl.
For family and funeral information, contact the Navy Service Casualty office at (800) 443-9298.
DPAA is grateful to the Department of Veterans Affairs and the Department of the Navy for their partnership in this mission.
For additional information on the Defense Department’s mission to account for Americans who went missing while serving our country, visit the DPAA website at www.dpaa.mil, find us on social media at www.facebook.com/dodpaa or https://www.linkedin.com/company/defense-pow-mia-accounting-agency.
Malek’s personnel profile can be viewed at https://dpaa-mil.sites.crmforce.mil/dpaaProfile?id=a0Jt0000000Xe04EAC.
From:
DPAA NCR OC Mailbox Public Affairs <dpaa.ncr.oc.mbx.public-affairs@mail.mil>
Sent: 15 March, 2024 13:57
Subject: DPAA News Release - West Virginia Soldier Accounted for
from Korean War
Greetings,
CPL Lilly was accounted for in September 2023, but his family only recently received their full briefing on his identification, which is why this release is going out now.
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The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Army Corporal Ray K. Lilly, 18, of Matoaka, West Virginia, killed during the Korean War, was accounted for Sep. 26, 2023.
In Nov. 1950, Lilly was a member of L Company, 3rd Battalion, 8th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Cavalry Division. He went missing in action after his unit engaged in defensive actions in the vicinity of Unsan, North Korea, November 2, 1950. After Operation Big Switch, several returning prisoners of War (POWs), reported seeing Cpl. Lilly at POW Camp #5. It was later determined that Lilly died in captivity in January or February 1951.
In the fall of 1953, during Operation Glory, North Korea unilaterally turned over remains to the United States, including one set, designated Unknown X-14682. Those remains were reportedly recovered from prisoner of war camps, United Nations cemeteries and isolated burial sites. None of the remains could be positivity identified as Cpl. Lilly. Those unidentified remains were subsequently buried as an Unknown in the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in Honolulu.
In July 2018, the DPAA proposed a plan to disinter 652 Korean War Unknowns from the Punchbowl. In 2019 DPAA disinterred Unknown X-14682 as part of Phase Two of the Korean War Disinterment Project and sent the remains to the DPAA laboratory for analysis.
To identify Lilly’s remains, scientists from DPAA used dental and anthropological analysis, as well as circumstantial evidence. Additionally, scientists from the Armed Forces Medical Examiner System used mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) analysis.
Lilly’s name is recorded on the Courts of the Missing at the Punchbowl, along with the others who are still missing from the Korean War. A rosette will be placed next to his name to indicate he has been accounted for.
Cpl. Lilly will be buried in Princeton, West Virginia, on a date to be determined.
For family and funeral information, contact the Army Casualty Office at (800) 892-2490.
To see the most up-to-date statistics on DPAA recovery efforts for those unaccounted for from the Korean War, go to the Korean War Accounting page on the DPAA website at: https://dpaa-mil.sites.crmforce.mil/dpaaFamWebKorean.
From:
DPAA NCR OC Mailbox Public Affairs <dpaa.ncr.oc.mbx.public-affairs@mail.mil>
Sent: 15 March, 2024 12:34
Subject: DPAA News Release - Tennessee Airman Accounted for from
WWII
Greetings,
SSgt Barbour was accounted for in September 2023, but his family only recently received their full briefing on his identification, which is why this release is going out now.
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The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Army Air Forces Staff Sgt. Jackson M. Barbour, 19, of Memphis, Tennessee, killed during World War II, was accounted for Sept. 22, 2023.
In December of 1942, Barbour was assigned to the 401st Bombardment Squadron, 91st Bombardment Group (Heavy), Eighth Air Force. On December 20, Barbour was a crewmember onboard a B-17F “Flying Fortress,” nicknamed Danellen, when it was struck by anti-aircraft fire after a bombing raid on a German aircraft factory at Romilly-sur-Seine, France. Barbour’s aircraft was last seen spinning towards the ground, crashing near the village of Bernières-sur-Seine, France. Only one airman parachuted successfully, while the other eight crew members, including Barbour, were still on board. A villager witnessed the crash and confirmed there was only one survivor. The War Department issued a finding of death for Staff Sgt. Barbour on Dec. 20, 1943.
Beginning in 1946, the American Graves Registration Command (AGRC), Army Quartermaster Corps, was the organization tasked with recovering missing American personnel in the European Theater. Following the war, the AGRC disinterred four sets of remains later designated as X-83, X-84, X-85, and X-86 St. Andre from Evreux cemetery. They were unable to identify the remains and were interred at the Normandy American Cemetery.
In 2011, a family member of one of the Danellen crew contacted the Department of Defense after visiting the crash site and interviewing a witness who had artifacts belonging to the Danellen. In April 2011, DPAA historians re-analyzed the unknowns associated with the crew and determined there was enough evidence to pursue the case. In October that year, a DPAA Investigation Team traveled to Bernières-sur-Seine to interview the witness and learned the crash site was completely destroyed. In March 2019, the Department of Defense and the American Battle Monuments Commission (ABMC) exhumed the unknown remains designated X-83, X-85, and X-86 St. Andre believed to be associated with the crew of the Danellen, including Staff Sgt. Barbour, from Normandy American Cemetery.
To identify Barbour’s remains, scientists from DPAA used anthropological analysis. Additionally, scientists from the Armed Forces Medical Examiner System used mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) analysis.
Barbour’s name is recorded on the memorialized on the Wall of the Missing at Normandy American Cemetery, an American Battle Monuments Commission site in Colleville-sur-Mer, France, along with others still missing from WWII. A rosette will be placed next to his name to indicate he has been accounted for.
Barbour will be buried in Memphis, Tennessee, on a date to be determined.
For family and funeral information, contact the Army Casualty Office at (800) 892-2490.
For additional information on the Defense Department’s mission to account for Americans who went missing while serving our country, visit the DPAA website at www.dpaa.mil or find us on social media at www.facebook.com/dodpaa or https://www.linkedin.com/company/defense-pow-mia-accounting-agency.
Barbour’s personnel profile can be viewed at: https://dpaa-mil.sites.crmforce.mil/dpaaProfile?id=a0Jt0000000XgV4EAK.
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Korean War soldier from Mercer
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Tanker Accounted for from
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Remains of Liberal, MO WWII
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Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S.
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airman from Kalamazoo identified - Yahoo
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Wednesday.
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Soldier Accounted for from
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Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S.
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killed during World ...
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Michigan airman killed
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Airman Accounted for from WWII
(Kasten, R.)
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Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Army Air
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Michigan, ...
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USS Oklahoma sailor from
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Soldier Accounted for from
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USS Oklahoma Sailor
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London, Ohio pilot
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From:
DPAA NCR OC Mailbox Public Affairs <dpaa.ncr.oc.mbx.public-affairs@mail.mil>
Sent: 15 March, 2024 10:41
Subject: DPAA News Release - New Hampshire Tanker Accounted for
from WWII
Greetings,
SGT Hammond was accounted for in September 2023, but his family only recently received their full briefing on his identification, which is why this release is going out now.
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The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Army Sgt. Richard G. Hammond, 24, of Northwood, New Hampshire, killed during World War II, was accounted for Sep 5, 2023.
In Feb 1943, Hammond was assigned to Company A, 601st Tank Destroyer Battalion, in the North African Theater during World War II as a crew commander of an M3 Gun Motor Carriage “half-track”. His unit was engaged in battle with German forces near Sbeitla, Tunisia, on Feb 17 when his half-track was struck by an enemy high-explosive tank shell. The explosion disabled the half-track and threw Hammond several yards from the wreckage. The area immediately came under heavy fire, forcing the surviving crewmembers to retreat. Witnesses maintain that while egressing from the area, they looked back several times and did not see any movement from Hammond. He was declared missing in action, but the Germans never reported him as a prisoner of war. On June 1, 1949, with no evidence Hammond survived the fighting, he was officially declared non-recoverable.
Following the end of the war, the American Graves Registration Command (AGRC) was tasked with investigating and recovering missing American personnel in Africa. On Sept 9, 1943, AGRC personnel recovered a set of remains from an isolated grave near a destroyed half-track in the vicinity of Sbeitla. At the time AGRC personnel could not conclusively identify the remains, designated X-5137 El Alia (X-5137), and they were interred in the U.S. Military Cemetery, Constantine, Algeria.
While studying unresolved American losses in Tunisia, a DPAA historian determined that the M3 half-track information gathered by AGRS in the area potentially belonged to Company A, where Hammond was assigned. This correlation led DPAA and American Battle Monuments Commission (ABMC) personnel, working closely with the government of Tunisia, to exhume the remains of X-5137 in Sept 2022. They were then sent to the DPAA laboratory for analysis and identification.
To identify Hammond’s remains, scientists from DPAA used dental and anthropological analysis, as well as circumstantial evidence. Additionally, scientists from the Armed Forces Medical Examiner System used mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) analysis.
Hammond’s name is recorded on the Walls of the Missing at North Africa American Cemetery, an American Battle Monuments Commission site in Tunis, Tunisia, along with the others still missing from World War II. A rosette will be placed next to his name to indicate he has been accounted for.
Sgt. Hammond will be buried on May 27, 2024, in Northwood, New Hampshire
For family and funeral information, contact the Army Casualty Office at (800) 892-2490.
DPAA is grateful to the American Battle Monuments Commission and to the U.S. Army Regional Mortuary-Europe/Africa for their partnership in this mission, and to the Government of Tunisia for their steadfast support of our recovery mission.
For additional information on the Defense Department’s mission to account for Americans who went missing while serving our country, visit the DPAA website at www.dpaa.mil, find us on social media at www.facebook.com/dodpaa or https://www.linkedin.com/company/defense-pow-mia-accounting-agency.
Hammond’s personnel profile can be viewed at https://dpaa-mil.sites.crmforce.mil/dpaaProfile?id=a0Jt000001nzbVBEAY
From:
DPAA NCR OC Mailbox Public Affairs <dpaa.ncr.oc.mbx.public-affairs@mail.mil>
Sent: 13 March, 2024 14:25
Subject: DPAA News Release - Michigan Airman Accounted
for from WWII
Greetings,
1st Lt. Kasten was accounted for in July 2023, but his family only recently received their full briefing on his identification, which is why this release is going out now.
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The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Army Air Force 1st Lt. Richard J. Kasten, 24, of Kalamazoo, Michigan, killed during World War II, was accounted for July 18, 2023.
In January 1944, Kasten was assigned to the 68th Bombardment Squadron, 44th Bombardment Group (Heavy) in the European Theater. On Jan. 21, Kasten, a navigator on board a B-24D Liberator, was killed in action when his plane was attacked by German air forces near Écalles-sur-Buchy, France. The aircraft ultimately crashed near Lignières-Châtelain, where four of the 11 crewmembers were killed. German forces quickly found the crash site and recovered three sets of remains, which were then interred in the French cemetery at Poix-de-la-Somme. Kasten’s remains were not reported among those buried by German forces, and he was listed as Killed In Action by October 1944.
American Graves Registration Command (AGRC) personnel exhumed American remains from Poix cemetery in June 1945, where they recovered four the remains of three of 1st Lt. Kasten's crewmates and four sets of unknown remains, including one set designated X-411 St. Andre (X-411). These remains were ultimately interred in Suresnes American Cemetery in France.
Beginning in 1946, the American Graves Registration Command (AGRC) was the organization that searched for and recovered fallen American personnel in the European Theater. Teams from the AGRC searched the area around Lignières-Châtelain, but they uncovered no new leads regarding the disposition of 1st Lt. Kasten’s remains.
In April 2019, DPAA historians and American Battle Monuments Commission personnel, exhumed X-411 from Suresnes American Cemetery and transferred them to the DPAA Laboratory for analysis where it was later determined the remains of X-411 belonged to Kasten.
To identify Kasten’s remains, scientists from DPAA used anthropological analysis. Additionally, scientists from the Armed Forces Medical Examiner System used mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA).
Kasten’s name is recorded on the Tablets of the Missing at Ardennes American Cemetery, France, along with others still missing from WWII. A rosette will be placed next to his name to indicate he has been accounted for.
1st Lt. Kasten will be buried in Battle Creek, Michigan, on a date to be determined.
For family and funeral information, contact the Army Casualty Office at (800) 892-2490.
For additional information on the Defense Department’s mission to account for Americans who went missing while serving our country, visit the DPAA website at www.dpaa.mil or find us on social media at www.facebook.com/dodpaa or https://www.linkedin.com/company/defense-pow-mia-accounting-agency.
Kasten’s personnel profile can be viewed at https://dpaa-mil.sites.crmforce.mil/dpaaProfile?id=a0Jt000001Pv6nQEAR
From:
DPAA NCR OC Mailbox Public Affairs <dpaa.ncr.oc.mbx.public-affairs@mail.mil>
Sent: 14 March, 2024 09:41
Subject: DPAA News Release - Missouri Soldier Accounted
for from WWII
Greetings,
CPL Wolfe was accounted for in August 2023, but his family only recently received their full briefing on his identification, which is why this release is going out now.
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The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Army Cpl. Julius G. Wolfe, 20, of Liberal, Missouri, killed during World War II, was accounted for Aug. 21, 2023.
In June 1944, Wolfe was assigned to Company B, 149th Engineer Combat Battalion in the European Theater. On June 6, Wolfe was aboard Landing Craft Infantry (Large) 92, along with roughly 200 other servicemembers, enroute to land on Omaha Beach, in Normandy, France. As LCI-92 steamed toward the shore, it struck an underwater mine which caused the craft to burst into flames. The craft was also hit by enemy artillery fire, causing an explosion that ignited the ships fuel stores and instantly killed everyone in the troop compartment. Due to the urgency of the situation, it was impossible for others to search for survivors. Wolfe’s remains were not accounted for after the war.
Around June 10, members of the 500th Medical Collecting Company examined the wreckage of LCI-92 and noted the burnt remains of servicemen in the troop compartment, where Wolfe and others were last seen. American Graves Registration Command (AGRC), the organization that searched for and recovered fallen American personnel in the European Theater, removed small amounts of remains from LCI-92 and buried them in the United States Military Cemetery (USMC) St. Laurent-sur-Mer.
Beginning in 1946, AGRC analyzed the remains found in LCI-92, segregating them into four separate Unknowns (X-53, X-83, X-83B, and X-83C). Despite their efforts, AGRC were unable to identify the Unknowns at the time and they were interred in Normandy American Cemetery, an American Battle Monuments Commission site in Normandy, France.
In June and August 2021, the Department of Defense and ABMC officials exhumed the comingled remains of the four Unknowns and transferred them to the DPAA Laboratory for analysis.
To identify Wolfe’s remains, scientists from DPAA used anthropological analysis. Additionally, scientists from the Armed Forces Medical Examiner System used mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) and Y-chromosome DNA (Y-STR) analysis.
Wolfe’s name is recorded on the Walls of the Missing at Normandy American Cemetery in Colleville-sur-Mer, France, along with others still missing from WWII. A rosette will be placed next to his name to indicate he has been accounted for.
Wolfe will be buried in Liberal, Missouri, on a date to be determined
For family and funeral information, contact the Army Casualty Office at (800) 892-2490.
For additional information on the Defense Department’s mission to account for Americans who went missing while serving our country, visit the DPAA website at www.dpaa.mil or find us on social media at www.facebook.com/dodpaa or https://www.linkedin.com/company/defense-pow-mia-accounting-agency.
Wolfe’s personnel profile can be viewed at https://dpaa-mil.sites.crmforce.mil/dpaaProfile?id=a0Jt0000000Xm2hEAC
From:
DPAA NCR OC Mailbox Public Affairs <dpaa.ncr.oc.mbx.public-affairs@mail.mil>
Sent: 14 March, 2024 12:33
Subject: DPAA News Release - Illinois Airman Accounted for from
WWII
Greetings,
2nd Lt. Porter was accounted for in December 2023, but his family only recently received their full briefing on his identification, which is why this release is going out now.
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The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Army Air Force 2nd Lt. Robert L. E. Porter, 23, of Chicago, Illinois, killed during World War II, was accounted for Dec. 20, 2023.
In early 1944, Porter was assigned to the 703rd Bombardment Squadron, 445th Bombardment Group, 8th Air Force in the European Theater. On Feb 24, 2nd Lt. Porter, the navigator onboard a B-24J “Liberator”, was killed in action when his plane was hit by heavy anti-aircraft fire over Gotha, Germany. One of the surviving crewmembers reported seeing the plane on fire and in a steep dive, before eventually exploding on the ground. While two crewmembers survived, the others, including Porter, were killed in the incident. German forces garrisoned in the area documented the crash site north of Leimbach Bahnhof, near Bad Salzungen, Germany. After the crash, German troops recovered the remains of the ball turret gunner and buried them in a local cemetery. The other six crewmembers, including 2nd Lt. Porter, were unaccounted for following the war
In March 1952, the American Graves Registration Command (AGRC), the organization that searched for and recovered fallen American personnel in the European Theater, took custody of comingled unidentified remains recovered from Bad Salzungen Cemetery. These remains, X-9093 Griesheim Mausoleum (X-9093), X-9094 Griesheim Mausoleum (X-9094), and X-9095 Griesheim Mausoleum (X-9095), were believed to be those belonging to 2nd Lt. Porter’s downed aircraft. At the time, identification of these remains was not possible, and they were interred in the Ardennes America Cemetery, Belgium.
In June 2021, DPAA historians and American Battle Monuments Commission personnel, exhumed X-9093, X-9094, and X-9095 from Ardennes American Cemetery and transferred them to the DPAA Laboratory for analysis and identification.
To identify Porter’s remains, scientists from DPAA used anthropological analysis. Additionally, scientists from the Armed Forces Medical Examiner System used mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) analysis.
Porter’s name is recorded on the Tablets of the Missing at Henri-Chapelle American Cemetery, Hombourg, Belgium, along with others still missing from WWII. A rosette will be placed next to his name to indicate he has been accounted for.
2nd Lt. Porter will be buried in Elmwood, Illinois, on a date to be determined.
For family and funeral information, contact the Army Casualty Office at (800) 892-2490
For additional information on the Defense Department’s mission to account for Americans who went missing while serving our country, visit the DPAA website at www.dpaa.mil or find us on social media at www.facebook.com/dodpaa or https://www.linkedin.com/company/defense-pow-mia-accounting-agency.
Porter’s personnel profile can be viewed at https://dpaa-mil.sites.crmforce.mil/dpaaProfile?id=a0Jt0000000BTA7EAO
From:
DPAA NCR OC Mailbox Public Affairs <dpaa.ncr.oc.mbx.public-affairs@mail.mil>
Sent: 11 March, 2024 12:20
Subject: FW: DPAA News Release - USS Oklahoma Sailor from Alabama
Accounted for from WWII
Greetings,
S2c Thornton was accounted for in April, 2019, but his family only recently received their full briefing on his identification, which is why this release is going out now.
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The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that Navy Seaman 2nd Class (S2c) Cecil H. Thornton, 21, of Rogersville, Alabama, killed during World War II, was accounted for on April 16, 2019.
On Dec. 7, 1941, Thornton was assigned to the battleship USS Oklahoma, which was moored at Ford Island, Pearl Harbor, when the ship was attacked by Japanese aircraft. The USS Oklahoma sustained multiple torpedo hits, which caused it to quickly capsize. The attack on the ship resulted in the deaths of 429 crewmen, including S2c Thornton.
From December 1941 to June 1944, Navy personnel recovered the remains of the deceased crew, which were subsequently interred in the Halawa and Nu’uanu Cemeteries.
In September 1947, tasked with recovering and identifying fallen U.S. personnel in the Pacific Theater, members of the American Graves Registration Service (AGRS) disinterred the remains of U.S. casualties from the two cemeteries and transferred them to the Central Identification Laboratory (CIL) at Schofield Barracks. In their analysis, CIL personnel could only identify 35 men from the USS Oklahoma at that time. The AGRS subsequently buried the unidentified remains in 46 graves at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific (NMCP), known as the Punchbowl, in Honolulu. In October 1949, a military board classified those who could not be identified as non-recoverable, including S2c Thornton.
In 2003, renewed efforts to identify the Unknowns of the USS Oklahoma began with the exhumation of one of the 46 graves. In 2015, DPAA received the approval to exhume the rest of the Oklahoma Unknowns from the NMCP, which were accessioned into the Laboratory for identification.
To identify Thornton’s remains, scientists from DPAA used dental and anthropological analysis. Additionally, scientists from the Armed Forces Medical Examiner System used mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) analysis.
Thornton’s name is recorded in the Courts of the Missing at the Punchbowl, along with the others who are missing from WWII. A rosette will be placed next to his name to indicate he has been accounted for.
S2c Thornton will be buried on March 11, 2024, in Rogersville, Alabama.
For family and funeral information, contact the US Navy Casualty office at (800) 443-9298.
DPAA is grateful to the Department of Veterans Affairs and the Department of the Navy for their partnership in this mission.
For additional information on the Defense Department’s mission to account for Americans who went missing while serving our country, visit the DPAA website at www.dpaa.mil, find us on social media at www.facebook.com/dodpaa or https://www.linkedin.com/company/defense-pow-mia-accounting-agency.
Thornton’s personnel profile can be viewed at https://dpaa-mil.sites.crmforce.mil/dpaaProfile?id=a0Jt0000000XgC0EAK
From:
DPAA NCR OC Mailbox Public Affairs <dpaa.ncr.oc.mbx.public-affairs@mail.mil>
Sent: 12 March, 2024 13:45
Subject: DPAA News Release - USS Oklahoma Sailor from California
Accounted for from WWII
Greetings,
RM3c Winfield was accounted for in June, 2019, but his family only recently received their full briefing on his identification, which is why this release is going out now.
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The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that Radioman Third Class (RM3c) Starring B. Winfield, 22, of San Rafael, California, killed during World War II, was accounted for on June 24, 2019.
On Dec. 7, 1941, Winfield was assigned to the battleship USS Oklahoma, which was moored at Ford Island, Pearl Harbor, when the ship was attacked by Japanese aircraft. The USS Oklahoma sustained multiple torpedo hits, which caused it to quickly capsize. The attack on the ship resulted in the deaths of 429 crewmen, including RM3c Winfield.
From December 1941 to June 1944, Navy personnel recovered the remains of the deceased crew, which were subsequently interred in the Halawa and Nu’uanu Cemeteries.
In September 1947, tasked with recovering and identifying fallen U.S. personnel in the Pacific Theater, members of the American Graves Registration Service (AGRS) disinterred the remains of U.S. casualties from the two cemeteries and transferred them to the Central Identification Laboratory at Schofield Barracks. The laboratory staff was only able to confirm the identifications of 35 men from the USS Oklahoma at that time. The AGRS subsequently buried the unidentified remains in 46 plots at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific (NMCP), known as the Punchbowl, in Honolulu. In October 1949, a military board classified those who could not be identified as non-recoverable, including Winfield.
In 2003, renewed efforts to identify the Unknowns of the USS Oklahoma began with the exhumation of one of the 46 graves containing USS Oklahoma Unknowns. In 2015, DPAA received the approval to exhume the rest of the USS Oklahoma Unknowns from the NMCP, which were accessioned into the Laboratory between June and November of that year.
To identify Winfield’s remains, scientists from DPAA used dental and anthropological analysis. Additionally, scientists from the Armed Forces Medical Examiner System used mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) analysis.
RM3c Winfield’s name is recorded in the Courts of the Missing at the Punchbowl, along with the others who are missing from WWII. A rosette will be placed next to his name to indicate he has been accounted for.
RM3c Winfield will be buried on March 27, 2024, in Arlington National Cemetery.
For family and funeral information, contact the US Navy Casualty office at (800) 443-9298.
DPAA is grateful to the Department of Veterans Affairs and the Department of the Navy for their partnership in this mission.
For additional information on the Defense Department’s mission to account for Americans who went missing while serving our country, visit the DPAA website at www.dpaa.mil, find us on social media at www.facebook.com/dodpaa or https://www.linkedin.com/company/defense-pow-mia-accounting-agency.
Winfield’s personnel profile can be viewed at https://dpaa-mil.sites.crmforce.mil/dpaaProfile?id=a0Jt0000000Xe0uEAC.
From:
DPAA NCR OC Mailbox Public Affairs <dpaa.ncr.oc.mbx.public-affairs@mail.mil>
Sent: 12 March, 2024 14:46
Subject: DPAA News Release - Iowa Soldier Accounted for from WWII
Greetings,
PFC Schlamp was accounted for in March, 2022, but his family only recently received their full briefing on his identification, which is why this release is going out now.
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The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Army Pfc. Raymond U. Schlamp, 28, of Dubuque, Iowa, killed during World War II, was accounted for March 21, 2022.
In September 1944, Schlamp was assigned to Company G, 2nd Battalion, 11th Infantry Regiment, 5th Infantry Division. The unit was attempting to secure terrain near Dornot, France, known as the “Horseshoe Woods” when it came under heavy German fire. Company G was given the order to withdraw back across the Moselle River, but many men were killed during the retreat. Schlamp was among those killed, but his body could not be recovered because of the intense fighting. One year later, in September 1945, the War Department issued a “Finding of Death” as his remains were unaccounted for.
Beginning in 1947, the American Graves Registration Command (AGRC), the organization that searched for and recovered fallen American personnel in the European Theater, searched the area around Dornot, finding several unidentified sets of American remains, but it was unable to identify any of them as Schlamp. He was declared non-recoverable on March 13, 1951.
DPAA historians have been conducting on-going research into Soldiers missing from combat around Dornot, and found that Unknown X-22 Limey (X-22), buried at Lorraine American Cemetery, an American Battle Monuments Commission site in Limey, France, could be associated with Schlamp or four other Soldiers. X-22 was disinterred in June 2021 and transferred to the DPAA Laboratory for analysis.
To identify Schlamp’s remains, scientists from DPAA used anthropological and dental analysis. Additionally, scientists from the Armed Forces Medical Examiner System used mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) analysis.
Schlamp’s name is recorded on the Walls of the Missing at Epinal American Cemetery in Dinozé, France, along with others still missing from WWII. A rosette will be placed next to his name to indicate he has been accounted for.
Pfc. Schlamp will be buried on a date and location to be determined.
For family and funeral information, contact the Army Casualty Office at (800) 892-2490.
For additional information on the Defense Department’s mission to account for Americans who went missing while serving our country, visit the DPAA website at www.dpaa.mil or find us on social media at www.facebook.com/dodpaa or https://www.linkedin.com/company/defense-pow-mia-accounting-agency.
Schlamp’s personnel profile can be viewed at https://dpaa-mil.sites.crmforce.mil/dpaaProfile?id=a0Jt000001edMwIEAU.
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Elmo F. Hartwick - JC Post
Hartwick, 38, of Onaga, Kansas, killed during
World War II, was accounted for Aug. 21, 2023, as announced by
the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency ( ...
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Remains of WWII soldier from
Ridgway, CO identified | FOX21 News Colorado
(RIDGWAY, Colo.) — The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced on Thursday, March 7,
that the remains of a former resident of Ridgway, ...
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Colorado WWII soldier's remains finally
identified after nearly 80 years - KDVR
But his remains weren't immediately recovered. But
historians from the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency have been researching soldiers missing
in ...
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Colorado soldier killed during World War II
identified in September 2023 - The Denver Post
... James McCartney, 22, died in 1945. (Provided by
Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency). U.S.
Army Private James B. McCartney, 22, was assigned ...
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Remains of California Navy sailor killed in
Pearl Harbor attack identified - CBS News
7, 1941, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting
Agency said in a news release. According to the Oklahoma
Historical Society, the crew "did everything they ...
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The sailor was assigned to the USS
Oklahoma, which capsized after being hit by several torpedoes
during the attack on Pearl Harbor.
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I am a woman, wife, and mother who served;
Here is a little of my Air Force story > Beale Air ...
... POW/MIA Accounting Command (JPAC), now the
Defense POW Accounting Agency (DPAA). In this role, I was a
forensic photographer who assisted teams in ...
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Leland woman working to get father a
Medal of Honor - Goldsboro News-Argus
While Storz is the recipient of numerous honors
— among those are two Purple Hearts, an Air Force
Cross, a Prisoner of War Medal, a Silver Star
and ...
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Soldier Accounted for from WWII (McCartney,
J.)
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA)
announced today that U.S. Army Pvt. James B. McCartney, 22,
of Ridgeway, Colorado, killed during ...
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Colorado soldier killed in World War II
finally located - 9News
Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency(DPPA)
historians have been conducting ongoing research
into soldiers missing from combat around Wildenguth
and ...
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Detained Americans Fast Facts - Erie News
Now
For information about missing Americans, see Robert
Levinson Fast Facts or POW/MIA in Iraq
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From:
DPAA NCR OC Mailbox Public Affairs <dpaa.ncr.oc.mbx.public-affairs@mail.mil>
Sent: 7 March, 2024 11:16
Subject: DPAA News Release - Colorado Soldier Accounted for from
WWII
Greetings,
PVT McCartney was accounted for in September, but his family only recently received their full briefing on his identification, which is why this release is going out now.
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The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Army Pvt. James B. McCartney, 22, of Ridgeway, Colorado, killed during World War II, was accounted for Sept. 21, 2023.
In early 1945, McCartney was assigned to Company B, 1st Battalion, 222nd Infantry Regiment, 42nd Infantry Division. On March 1, McCartney was killed in action while his unit was on patrol near Wildenguth, France. The Germans never reported McCartney as a prisoner of war, and his remains were not immediately recovered.
Beginning in 1947, the American Graves Registration Command (AGRC), the organization that searched for and recovered fallen American personnel in the European Theater, searched the area around Wildenguth. None of the investigations uncovered any leads regarding the disposition of McCartney’s remains. He was declared non-recoverable on Oct. 8, 1951.
DPAA historians have been conducting on-going research into Soldiers missing from combat around Wildenguth. and found that X-6492, buried in Lorraine American Cemetery, an American Battle Monuments Commission site in St. Avold, France, could be associated with McCartney. X-6492 was disinterred in August 2022 and transferred to the DPAA Laboratory for analysis.
To identify McCartney’s remains, scientists from DPAA used dental and anthropological analysis. Additionally, scientists from the Armed Forces Medical Examiner System used mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) and autosomal DNA (auSTR), analysis.
McCartney’s name is recorded on the Walls of the Missing at Epinal American Cemetery in Dinozé, France, along with others still missing from WWII. A rosette will be placed next to his name to indicate he has been accounted for.
McCartney will be buried March 30, 2024, in Bakersfield, California.
For family and funeral information, contact the Army Casualty Office at (800) 892-2490.
For additional information on the Defense Department’s mission to account for Americans who went missing while serving our country, visit the DPAA website at www.dpaa.mil or find us on social media at www.facebook.com/dodpaa or https://www.linkedin.com/company/defense-pow-mia-accounting-agency.
From:
DPAA NCR OC Mailbox Public Affairs <dpaa.ncr.oc.mbx.public-affairs@mail.mil>
Sent: 6 March, 2024 14:42
Subject: DPAA News Release - USS Oklahoma Sailor from California
Accounted for from WWII
Greetings,
F2c Overley was accounted for in July, 2021, but his family only recently received their full briefing on his identification, which is why this release is going out now.
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The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that Navy Fire Controlman 2nd (F2c) Class Lawrence J. Overley, 21, of Los Angeles, California, killed during World War II, was accounted for on July 16, 2021.
On Dec. 7, 1941, Overley was assigned to the battleship USS Oklahoma, which was moored at Ford Island, Pearl Harbor, when the ship was attacked by Japanese aircraft. The USS Oklahoma sustained multiple torpedo hits, which caused it to quickly capsize. The attack on the ship resulted in the deaths of 429 crewmen, including F2c Overley.
From December 1941 to June 1944, Navy personnel recovered the remains of the deceased crew, which were subsequently interred in the Halawa and Nu’uanu Cemeteries.
In September 1947, tasked with recovering and identifying fallen U.S. personnel in the Pacific Theater, members of the American Graves Registration Service (AGRS) disinterred the remains of U.S. casualties from the two cemeteries and transferred them to the Central Identification Laboratory at Schofield Barracks. The laboratory staff was only able to confirm the identifications of 35 men from the USS Oklahoma at that time. The AGRS subsequently buried the unidentified remains in 46 plots at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific (NMCP), known as the Punchbowl, in Honolulu. In October 1949, a military board classified those who could not be identified as non-recoverable, including Overley.
Between June and November 2015, DPAA personnel exhumed the USS Oklahoma Unknowns from the Punchbowl for analysis.
To identify Overley’s remains, scientists from DPAA used dental and anthropological analysis. Additionally, scientists from the Armed Forces Medical Examiner System used Y chromosome DNA (Y-STR) analysis.
Overley’s name is recorded on the Courts of the Missing at the Punchbowl, along with the others who are missing from WWII. A rosette will be placed next to his name to indicate he has been accounted for.
F2c Overley will be buried on March 27, 2024, in the Punchbowl.
For family and funeral information, contact the Navy Service Casualty office at (800) 443-9298.
DPAA is grateful to the Department of Veterans Affairs and the Department of the Navy for their partnership in this mission.
For additional information on the Defense Department’s mission to account for Americans who went missing while serving our country, visit the DPAA website at www.dpaa.mil, find us on social media at www.facebook.com/dodpaa or https://www.linkedin.com/company/defense-pow-mia-accounting-agency.
Overley’s personnel profile can be viewed at https://dpaa-mil.sites.crmforce.mil/dpaaProfile?id=a0Jt0000000XhSpEAK.
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World War II POW Us Army
Pvt. Robert Hurst accounted for - Audacy
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced this December that
U.S. Army Pvt. Robert L. A. Hurst, 21, of Wabasso,
Florida, ...
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12/27/2023
The Ukrainian troops are seen kneeling with their hands behind their heads on the frontline in Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia region...
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Fallen hero identified,
returned home - Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency
Fallen World War II hero and
Little Rock son 2nd Lt. Kenyon Brindley is home nearly 80
years after he and six other crew members on a B-24 ...
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Russell Hamler, thought to be
the last of WWII Merrill's Marauders jungle-fighting unit, dies at
99
... Silver Star. The Army
also awarded the Bronze Star to every soldier in the unit.
The soldiers spent months behind enemy lines, marching
hundreds ...
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Accounting for and honoring
Twentieth's fallen Airmen > 20th Air Force > Article Display
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA) is the agency responsible
for this mission. Under the motto “Fulfilling Our
Nation's Promise,” DPAA ...
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US Files War Crime Charges Against Russian Troops Accused of Torturing an American in Ukraine
....The American told federal agents who had traveled to Ukraine last year as part of an investigation that the Russian soldiers had abducted him, stripped him naked, pointed a gun at his head and badly beaten him, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said.|
Spring burial slated for US soldier
in WWII after analysis establishes identity
Army Pvt. Homer J. Mitchell, who was
20 when he died, was successfully accounted for in July, the
Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency said in a
Dec ...
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Alliance soldier accounted for
from Korean War - The Highland County Press
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced recently that U.S.
Army Cpl. William J. Herrington, 19, of Alliance, Ohio,
killed during ...
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Medal of Honor
Monday: Navy Seaman 1st Class James R. Ward - Department of
Defense
Ward chose the valiant option, giving
his life so his fellow sailors could escape. He
earned a posthumous Medal of Honor for his
gallantry, and just ...
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James R. Ward died aboard
USS Oklahoma in Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941 - Gainesville Sun
Medal of Honor
recipient with ties to Gainesville buried Thursday
with full military honors ... It may have taken a
little time, but a World War II U.S. ...
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Hero Army Lieutenant Killed in
WWII Will Finally Be Laid to Rest in 2024
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency announced that U.S. Army 2nd Lt. Gene F.
Walker has officially been found and accounted for 79 years
after ...
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Remains of eastern New
Mexico soldier killed in WWII identified, coming home - KVII
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced last week U.S.
Army Pvt. Homer J. Mitchell, 20, of Portales, was no
longer among the ...
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Medal of Honor Monday: Navy
Seaman 1st Class James R. Ward - Department of Defense
In 2015, investigators – now
with the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency
– exhumed the comingled remains of the buried unknown
men from the ...
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Citizens complete encyclopedia on life
at wartime POW camps
| The Asahi Shimbun
... POWs including their
forced labor. POW Research Network
Japan has been conducting research on POWs
since 2002. The writing of the book was shared ...
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Daughter of Richmond WWII
veteran speaks after father's remains identified - Fox 59
When Walker's remains were identified
in July by the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency, Collingwood got a chance to do
something she never thought ...
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Helen Smith was well ...
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Navy Medal of Honor
Recipient Laid to Rest at Arlington
ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETERY —
Distinguished World War II Veteran and Medal of Honor
recipient Seaman 1st Class James Richard Ward was laid
to rest ...
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Springfield native Ward,
Medal of Honor recipient, laid to rest at Arlington - Dayton
Daily News
World War II Veteran and Medal of
Honor recipient Seaman 1st Class James Richard Ward
was accorded full military honors, “ensuring his
enduring legacy ...
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After 82 Years, a Navy Pearl
Harbor Hero Is Laid to Rest | Military.com
... honor of laying the Medal of Honor
in the casket. "It was very emotional, being able to put
that on and know that it will always be with him, he ...
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Young applauds bill to
designate U.S. 20 the 'National Medal of Honor Highway'
“Our Medal of Honor recipients are
some of our nation's bravest heroes,” Young said. “I am
proud to support the designation of U.S. Highway 20 as
the ...
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Florida WWII soldier who died as
POW accounted for 81 years later | West Central Florida
TAMPA (WFLA) - A Florida soldier who died during
World War II was finally accounted for 81 years after his death,
according to the Defense POW/MIA ...
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https://www.foxnews.com/live-news/december-22-israel-hamas-war?
The Hostages and Missing Persons Families Forum announced Friday that Gadi Haggai, a 73-year-old Israeli-American taken captive by Hamas, has died. He is the first American hostage to have died in the war.
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US historians ID a New Mexico
soldier killed during WWII, but work ... - The Middletown Press
... POW/MIA
Accounting Agency shows U.S. Army Pvt. Homer Mitchell, who
was ... POW/MIA Accounting Agency. (Defense
POW/MIA Accounting Agency via AP)AP.
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Opinion: After 50 years,
Marine Capt. Ron Forrester is coming home
She served on the board of directors
of the National League of POW/MIA
Families and visited Vietnam representing POW-MIA
families. She spoke at ...
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Navy Medal of Honor
Recipient Laid to Rest at Arlington
On Feb. 22, 2022, the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced that it had
positively identified Ward's remains on Aug. 19,
2021. As a ...
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Remains Of Killed WWII
POW Finally Identified After More Than 80 Years | The Daily
Caller
... POW/MIA Accounting
Agency (DPAA) said in a statement Thursday. Hurst, a
member of the 429th Signal Maintenance Company, was
captured alongside ...
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Florida WWII soldier who died
as POW accounted for 81 years later - WFLA
A Florida man who died during
World War II was finally accounted for 81 years after his
death, according to the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency.
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Detained Americans Fast Facts |
KRDO
For information about missing
Americans, see Robert Levinson Fast Facts or POW/MIA
in Iraq and Afghanistan Fast Facts. Currently Detained ...
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2 more U.S. soldiers killed
during World War II identified: "He was so young and it was so
painful"
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency also announced last week that
military scientists identified the remains of a
soldier from Georgia who was ...
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Honoring Prisoners of War
and Comrades Missing in Action - AFCEA International
“She was motivated to do something to
help families of POW/MIA service
members,” Newton said. “With other military spouses,
she helped create the ...
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WWII Soldier Identified -
Albuquerque Journal
... by experts at the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency. Source: Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency. As featured on. Facebook ·
Twitter · WhatsApp · SMS ...
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US historians identify a New
Mexico soldier killed during WWII - Army Times
Army Pvt. Homer Mitchell is one
of nearly 160 service members identified over the past year
as part of an effort by the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting ...
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Soldier Accounted for from
WWII (Hurst, R.)
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S.
Army Pvt. Robert L. A. Hurst, 21, of Wabasso,
Florida, who was captured and ...
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| December 20, 2023 |
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WWII Soldier laid to rest
at Fort Cavazos after 70 years in Belgium - Aerotech News
... POW/MIA Accounting
Agency, also known as DPAA. It was in 1946 that the
American Graves Registration Command was charged
with recovering and ...
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| December 19, 2023 |
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Remains of Lost American
Airman from WWII Discovered after 80 Years - Any Uak Media
However, the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA) recently announced that
Hall was officially declared accounted for on July
13, 2023. This ...
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World War II airman laid to
rest after 79 years in a 'happy' celebration - Arkansas' Best News
Source
... POW/MIA Accounting
Agency was able to positively identify Kenyon's remains.
... Outside the funeral home a caravan of motorcycles,
many of them carrying ...
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| December 18, 2023 |
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Soldier Accounted for from
WWII (Mitchell, H.)
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S.
Army Pvt. Homer J. Mitchell, 20, of Portales, New
Mexico, killed during ...
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Bob Pardo, Vietnam War
pilot famous for Pardo's Push maneuver, dead at 89 - Fox News
His bravery earned him the Silver
Star, which is awarded for "gallantry in action
against an enemy of the United States while engaged
in military ...
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US Air Force star
famous for 'Pardo's Push' maneuver in Vietnam War dies | The US
Sun
The legend's heroic act earned him
the Silver Star, a medal awarded for
"gallantry in action against an enemy of the United
States while engaged ...
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Air Force legend Robert
'Bob' Pardo, famous for 'Pardo's Push' maneuver, dead at 89
Aside from his Silver Star,
his awards include the Distinguished Flying Cross
with Oak Leaf Cluster, Purple Heart, Air Medal with
twelve Oak Leaf ...
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Arkansas World War II
soldier killed in combat returns home after remains found | KATV
... POW/MIA Accounting
Agency (DPAA). Lt. Brindley's name is currently
recorded on the Tablets of the Missing at Henri-Chapelle
American Cemetery ...
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| December 16, 2023 |
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Fallen World War II soldier
from Atlanta to be laid to rest in Canton in January - WSB-TV
... POW/MIA Accounting
Agency. He was 26. [DOWNLOAD: Free WSB-TV News app
for alerts as news breaks]. According to DPAA, Cole
was killed in action when ...
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war remains-excavation
SEOUL, Dec. 15 (Yonhap) -- A total of 214 sets of
remains of soldiers killed during the 1950-53 Korean War
have been excavated from former battle sites this year,
the defense ministry said Friday. About 11,000 soldiers
were mobilized from March 27 to Nov. 10 to excavate the
remains at 35 former battle sites, the ministry's Ag...
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Hump WWII Museum Opens in
India - Vintage Aviation News
The museum is run by Oken Tayeng, an
adventure tour guide turned historian. Tayeng
accompanied teams from the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency as ...
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Gov't Secures Testimony on
Sites in N. Korea Where UN Troops Who Fought in Korean War ...
The Pentagon's Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency estimates that remains of 380 U.S.
soldiers are buried in parts of Gaechon. Share.
Print. List.
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Medal of Honor
Monday: Marine Corps Staff Sgt. Karl G. Taylor Sr. - Department
of Defense
For Taylor, that meant giving his
life for theirs — a sacrifice that earned him a
posthumous Medal of Honor. Taylor was born
July 14, 1939, to parents ...
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Remains of USS Oklahoma
Medal of Honor hero ID'd at Offutt - Omaha World-Herald
The remains of a USS Oklahoma
Medal of Honor winner were identified at Offutt
and will be buried at Arlington National Cemetery.
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| December 7, 2023 | |
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https://www.military.com/daily-news/2023/12/06/us-files-war-crime-charges-against-russian-troops-accused-of-torturing-american-ukraine.html?ESRC=eb_231207.nl&utm_medium=email&utm_source=eb&utm_campaign=20231207 US Files War Crime Charges Against Russian Troops Accused of Torturing an American in Ukraine |
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Marine Accounted for from
Vietnam (Forrester, R.)
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S.
Marine Corps Capt. Ronald W. Forrester, lost during
the Vietnam War, ...
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Tuskegee Airman Laid to
Rest Nearly 80 Years After He Disappeared During a Mission
Second Lieutenant Fred L. Brewer Jr.
disappeared while returning to Ramitelli Air Field
in Italy in October 1944, per the Defense POW/MIA ...
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Sen. Fischer highlights
national defense priorities - CENTRAL - NEWS CHANNEL NEBRASKA
POW/MIA
Accountability Agency– Authorized $5M for planning
and design ... POW/MIA Accountability
Agency Laboratory at Offutt Air Force Base. 55th ...
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Remains of Korean War Soldier
Buried at Arlington National Cemet - WENY News
Earlier this year, the Defense POW/MIA
(DPAA), identified McCarthy after using anthropological
analysis, as well as circumstantial evidence.
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Putin says Russia in talks with US on exchanging jailed Gershkovich and Whelan
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Putin calls on Biden to 'make an offer to us' for the release of American journalist Evan Gershkovich and says he should not have 'committed offences on Russian soil' - as court orders him to spend Christmas in jail
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Dick Yarbrough: Closure at last
for fraternity brother long lost - Coastal Courier
“Ceil was very active in the
POW/MIA movement,” he told me, “and ... POWs and
MIAs. It was not until 2005, when I accompanied Pat's
father, Gilmer ...
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Body of Recently Recovered
WWII Solider Will Be Buried at Georgia National Cemetery in
Canton
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency announced that the body of U.S.
Army Pfc. Hood E. Cole, 26, of Atlanta, who was
killed during World War II, was ...
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tribuneledgernews.com
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency announced Tuesday that the body of
U.S. Army Pfc. Hood E. Cole, 26, of Atlanta, who was
killed during World ...
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Legendary Air Force Combat
Controller, 'Horse Soldier' dies at 51 - Task & Purpose
Retired Air Force Chief Master Sgt
Alan T. Yoshida, a combat controller who was awarded
the Silver Star as one of the original “Horse
Soldiers” ...
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Silver Star
Food Stores presents donation to local VFW Post 8621 - Alice
Echo News Journal
Silver Star
Food Stores presents donation to local VFW Post 8621
... News. Amanda Sue Friedeck and Silvestre
Rodriguez presented VFW Post 8621 with ...
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Bob Pardo, Vietnam War
pilot famous for Pardo's Push maneuver, dies at 89
In addition to the Silver Star,
his awards include the Distinguished Flying Cross
with Oak Leaf Cluster, Purple Heart, Air Medal with
twelve Oak Leaf ...
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ID'd at Offutt, USS Oklahoma
Medal of Honor hero to be buried at Arlington
A second effort after the war
ended in failure. Thanks to DNA technology and the efforts
of anthropologists from the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting ...
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Hood Cole Obituary - Georgia
Funeral Care & Cremation Services - 2023 - Legacy.com
WASHINGTON-The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Army Pfc.
Hood E. Cole, 26, of Atlanta, Georgia, killed during ...
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Cadet Research Project
Honors Aggies Who Are Missing In Action - Texas A&M Today
... POW/MIA Accounting
Agency Research Partner Historian. “Jackson had a
vision early on that Aggies who are still
unaccounted for need to be formally ...
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Remains of USS Oklahoma
Medal of Honor hero ID'd at Offutt - Omaha World-Herald
The remains of a USS Oklahoma
Medal of Honor winner were identified at Offutt and will
be buried at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Wreaths Across America
ceremonies planned across Lake County Dec. 16
Specially designated wreaths for the
Army, Marines, Navy, Air Force, Coast Guard,
Merchant Marine, Space Force and POW/MIA
will be placed on ...
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Mount Angeles Memorial Park
Cemetery to host 2023 Wreaths Across America event
... POW/MIA,
representation from Junior American Eagle youths, a
rider-less horse salute, playing of “Taps” and
bagpipe music. The 22-inch live balsam ...
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Local WWII airman's remains
coming home | Central Florida
Nov. 27, the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced that U.S. Army
Air Force Staff Sgt. Franklin P. Hall, 21, of
Leesburg,.
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Deemed unrecoverable for over
50 years, Georgia WWII soldier will finally have burial
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced Tuesday that the U.S.
Army Pfc. Hood E. Cole has finally been accounted for.
The 26-year ...
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From:
DPAA NCR OC Mailbox Public Affairs <dpaa.ncr.oc.mbx.public-affairs@mail.mil>
Sent: 12 December, 2023 10:42
Subject: DPAA News Release - Georgia Soldier Accounted for
from WWII
Greetings,
PFC Cole was accounted for in February, but his family only recently received their full briefing on his identification, which is why this release is going out now.
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The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Army Pfc. Hood E. Cole, 26, of Atlanta, Georgia, killed during World War II, was accounted for Feb. 22, 2023.
In January 1945, Cole was assigned to L Company, 3rd Battalion, 276th Infantry Regiment, 70th Infantry Division. On Jan. 14, Cole was killed in action when his unit was attacked by German forces near Baerenthal, France. At some point during the fighting, Cole was killed, but historical records do not indicate exactly where. Due to the fighting, his body was unable to be immediately recovered.
Beginning in 1947, the American Graves Registration Command (AGRC), the organization that searched for and recovered fallen American personnel in the European Theater, searched the area around Baerenthal. None of the investigations uncovered any leads regarding the disposition of Cole’s remains. He was declared non-recoverable on May 11, 1951.
DPAA historians have been conducting on-going research into Soldiers missing from combat around Baerenthal and found that X-9441 and X-9442 Frankfurt Mausoleum, buried in Ardennes American Cemetery, an American Battle Monuments Commission site in in Neupré, Belgium, could be associated with Cole. X-9441 and X-9442 were disinterred in April 2018 and transferred to the DPAA Laboratory at Offutt Air Force Base, Nebraska, for analysis.
To identify Cole’s remains, scientists from DPAA used anthropological and dental analysis. Additionally, scientists from the Armed Forces Medical Examiner System used mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) and Y chromosome DNA (Y-STR) analysis.
Cole’s name is recorded on the Walls of the Missing at Epinal American Cemetery in Dinozé, France, along with others still missing from WWII. A rosette will be placed next to his name to indicate he has been accounted for.
Cole will be buried on January 15, 2024, in Canton, Georgia.
For family and funeral information, contact the Army Casualty Office at (800) 892-2490.
For additional information on the Defense Department’s mission to account for Americans who went missing while serving our country, visit the DPAA website at www.dpaa.mil or find us on social media at www.facebook.com/dodpaa or https://www.linkedin.com/company/defense-pow-mia-accounting-agency.
Cole’s personnel profile can be viewed at https://dpaa-mil.sites.crmforce.mil/dpaaProfile?id=a0Jt0000000LkfdEAC.
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Tuskegee Airman Missing for Nearly
80 Years Finally Laid to Rest - EURweb
According to the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency, Second Lieutenant Fred L. Brewer Jr.
disappeared while returning to Ramitelli Air Field in ...
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YARBROUGH COLUMN: - LaGrange
Daily News
... POW-MIA bracelet
engraved with the name of someone he didn't know. After
reading my column, now he does. My fraternity brother,
Maj. Paschal Boggs ...
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363d ISR Group pays tribute
to 1st Lt. Paul Schmidt; Pilot Accounted for from WWII ...
... POW/MIA Accounting
Agency positively identified Lt. Schmidt, allowing
his family to finally bury him. Schmidt was interred
Nov. 28, 2023 at ...
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Remains of USS Oklahoma
Medal of Honor hero ID'd at Offutt - Omaha World-Herald
Thanks to DNA technology and the
efforts of anthropologists from the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency's laboratory at Offutt Air Force
Base, Ward's ...
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Nearly eight decades after
his death during WWII, Little Rock man to be buried in Conway
cemetery
It was there in June 2021 that the
remains were exhumed by the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency for laboratory analysis and
identification.
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Death of Last Surviving Alaskan Taken by Japan During WWII Rekindles Memories of Forgotten Battle
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Advances in commingled
human remains analysis between 2014 and 2023 - Palmiotto
In 2015, the DPAA (then known as
Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command)
initiated the USS Oklahoma Identification Project.
The goal of this project was ...
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| December 10, 2023 |
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World War Two: When 600 US
planes crashed in Himalayas - BBC
They have included members of the US
Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA),
the US agency that deals with soldiers missing in
action. The ...
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After 7 decades in Belgium,
World War II soldier laid to rest near Gatesville | Local News
His remains were identified for 77
years as X-3144 and were placed in the Ardennes
American Cemetery. Rudd was accounted for by the
Defense POW/MIA ...
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Oh, Christmas tee: Indians
Hills Golf Club honoring service members, veterans | Local
Located in a corner of a seating area
of the restaurant, the tree contains U.S. Armed
Forces and POW/MIA flags, and various
patriotic ornaments and ...
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| December 8, 2023 | |
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Military Religious Freedom
Foundation leads Kentucky VA astray - American Family News
... for the "smoke and mirrors"
of the church-state separation advocate now responsible for
removing the Bible from a POW/MIA
commemorative table.
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2nd Lt. Fred Brewer:
Tuskegee Airmen Laid To Rest in Salisbury, N.C. - DVIDS
Brewer's body was never recovered and
as a result, he was declared missing in action. 79
years later, the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA), ...
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| December 8, 2023 | |
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DNA collection by families
gives boost to USS Arizona ID effort - Lexington Clipper-Herald
... POW/MIA
Accounting Agency can identify 85 sets of remains linked to
the battleship that are buried as "unknowns" in a military
cemetery in Honolulu.
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Welcome home event planned
for remains of Leesburg World War II veteran - The Villages
Daily Sun
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency, which searches for American
troops killed or missing in action, recently
announced that Staff Sgt. Franklin ...
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In the wake of the attack, 15
Medals of Honor, 51 Navy Crosses, 53 Silver Stars,
four Navy and Marine Corps Medals, one Distinguished Flying
Cross ...
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Pearl Harbor Medal of
Honor Recipient from Ohio to be buried at Arlington National
Cemetery
Ward became one of 429 men who died
aboard the USS Oklahoma that day, and for his heroic
action, he was awarded the Medal of Honor,
the United States ...
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Springfield Medal of
Honor winner will be buried in Arlington National Cemetery -
Dayton Daily News
James Richard (also called “Dick”)
Ward, was killed in the Dec. 7, 1941 attack on Pearl
Harbor. He posthumously received the Medal of
Honor in 1942.
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Sailor awarded Medal of
Honor for Pearl Harbor heroism identified by DNA
The remains of a sailor awarded the
Medal of Honor for saving fellow crew during
the attack on Pearl Harbor will be interred in
Arlington.
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| December 7, 2023 | |
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World War II soldier from
Arkansas to be buried after 77 years - KATV
Those remains would then be
moved to Ardennes American Cemetery in Belgium, then exhumed
by the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency in
June 2021 for ...
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WWII MIA, Second
Lieutenant FRED BREWER laid to rest at Salisbury National
Cemetery
2nd Lt. Brewer was
accounted for on August 10, 2023, by the Defense
POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA). His
remains were received by his family and ...
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Tuskegee airman laid to rest nearly
80 years after he went missing - ABC News
... POW/MIA Accounting
Agency (DPAA), a department of the military dedicated to finding
military personnel missing in action. In 2011, DPAA ...
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Remains of World War II Soldier
to be buried in Conway, Arkansas - DVIDS
... POW/MIA Accounting
Agency in June 2021 for laboratory analysis and
identification. Brindley was accounted for by the DPAA
Sept. 21, 2023, after ...
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Final resting place: Tuskegee
Airman from Charlotte, missing in action, comes home - Yahoo News
Through the efforts of Brewer
family members and the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency, the remains of the war hero were found
and identified on Aug ...
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A Sailor Comes Home:
Great-niece reflects on man's return from Pearl Harbor
It wasn't until the
Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency
began its own identification efforts using
anthropological analysis in 2018 that a
breakthrough ...
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| December 6, 2023 |
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Korean War KIA from Palmer
coming home - The Mining Journal
Of course, the North Koreans had
his remains, turning them over to U.S. officials in 2018. He
was officially accounted for by the Defense POW/MIA ...
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Remains of soldier killed
during World War II reinterred - WCNC
“Thanks to the unyielding
advocacy of his cousins Robena Brewer Harrison and Brenda L.
Brewer, and the determined work of the POW/MIA
Accounting ...
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Pearl Harbor remembered -
Newton Kansan
In 2015, the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency personnel exhumed these remains
and as a result of advances in forensic and
scientific analytical ...
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A Comrade's Betrayal Led to Richard
Fitzgibbon Jr.'s Death In Vietnam
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Michigan soldier killed in
Korean War to be buried next week at Arlington National ... -
FOX 2 Detroit
... POW/MIA Accounting
Agency (DPAA)) ... But remains turned over by North
Korea in 2018 were identified in February as
McCarthy's by the Defense POW/MIA ...
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Michigan soldier killed in
Korean War to be buried next week at Arlington National Cemetery
(Uncredited/Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency) ... But remains turned over by
North Korea in 2018 were identified in February as
McCarthy's by the ...
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Michigan soldier killed in
Korean War to be buried next week at Arlington National Cemetery
1 of 3 |. This image provided by
Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) shows
Army Cpl. Gordon D. McCarthy, of Palmer, Mich. · 2 of 3 |.
This image ...
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Remains of Korean War soldier
from Palmer to be buried - The Mining Journal
McCarthy's remains were turned
over by North Korea on July 27, 2018, almost 70 years later.
He was accounted for by the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting ...
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Soldier killed in Korean
War to be buried next week - Military Times
This image provided by Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency shows Army Cpl. Gordon D.
McCarthy, of Palmer, Mich. (Defense POW ...
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Michigan soldier's remains
will be buried at Arlington National Cemetery next week
In July, the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced they were able to
identify McCarthy's remains using anthropological
analysis and ...
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| December 4, 2023 | |
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Remains of Palmer veteran to be
buried in Arlington this month | WJMN - UPMatters.com
The POW/MIA
Accounting Agency identified McCarthy's remains earlier this
year. The funeral and interment is set for Dec. 14. Anyone
who wants to ...
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Michigan soldier killed in
Korean War to be buried at Arlington National Cemetery
Soldier's Remains Michigan This image
provided by Defense POW/MIA Accounting
Agency (DPAA) shows Army Cpl. Gordon D. McCarthy, of
Palmer, Mich ...
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Kentucky Council of
Churches chief not upset over removal of Bible from VA POW/MIA
display
... POW/MIA display.
Kentucky Council of Churches chief not upset over
removal of Bible from VA POW/MIA. Mon,
December 4, 2023. Equality, News. 3. WEKU ...
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Michigan soldier killed in
Korean War to be buried next week at Arlington National ... -
TheHour
... POW/MIA Accounting
Agency (DPAA) shows Army Cpl. Gordon D. McCarthy, of
... But remains turned over by North Korea in 2018
were identified in February ...
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Remains of S. Korean
Drafted by Japan Repatriated after 80 Yrs. - KBS WORLD
According to the U.S. Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA), more than one thousand
Koreans forcibly conscripted by the Japanese
military lost ...
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DEC 3, 2023
EXCLUSIVE: Russian soldiers have raped and tortured men as well as women in Ukraine as a weapon of war to 'destroy' the population for generations to come, activists revealed.
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A survivor of the October 7 massacre has told of the unfathomable atrocities he witnessed on the dreaded day as Hamas terrorists raped, tortured and killed young, innocent women. Yoni Saadon, 39, who survived the Supernova peace festival by hiding under dead bodies, now wakes at night in anguish to the faces of the fallen women, including one with 'the face of an angel'. One image indiscriminately glued to his brain, is the horrifying moment a woman's decapitated head rolled across the road, after she refused to be stripped naked.....
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AFU confirm shooting of two
Ukrainian POWs by russians
On April 11, a video of the brutal
murder of a Ukrainian POW was shared on social
networks. The footage shows how a russian soldier cuts off
the ...
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Missing WWII fighter plane
found 40ft underwater off Italian coast after 80 Years - Geo.tv
While the diver's identification brings
closure to Singer's fate, the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency is actively investigating the
discovery ...
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| December 2, 2023 | |
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Fallen WWII soldier to be laid
to rest in Leesburg after remains ID'ed - YouTube
Last Surviving WWII Medal of
Honor Recipient Hershel “Woody” Williams' heroic actions
on Iwo Jima. American Veterans Center•1.8M views · 10:56 ·
Go to ...
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Remains of World War II
Soldier to be buried in Salisbury, North Carolina Dec. 6 - DVIDS
In 2022, the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency exhumed Unknown Remains X-125,
from the Florence American Cemetery in Impruneta,
Italy, for forensic ...
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The remains of a WWII
airman, unaccounted for since 1944, now are coming home
... POW/MIA Accounting
Agency (DPAA.) Staff Sgt. Franklin P. Hall. German
forces recovered nine sets of remains, which were
interred in a French ...
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Vietnam POW returns
key to Williamsburg 50 years later - Daily Press
Vietnam POW who was presented the key
in 1973 returns it to to become ... White's name
never appeared on any POW-MIA
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Remains of World War II
soldier to be laid to rest at Bethel Cemetery in Gatesville -
KWTX
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Tank Commander Identified After 79 Years
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Bible to be replaced by
journal on POW/MIA tables at Lexington VA
facilities - Forward Kentucky
Bible to be replaced by journal on
POW/MIA tables at Lexington VA
facilities. Proselytizing in the military continues
to be a problem. But at least in ...
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The Fallen Crew of the USS
Arizona and Operation 85 - The National WWII Museum
A Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency project aims to identify unknown
servicemen who perished aboard the USS Arizona
during the attack on Pearl ...
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Missing WWII Airman
Officially Accounted for Nearly 80 Years After Plane Shot Down
Hall, of Leesburg, Fla., was killed
during World War II at the age of 21, according to a
news release from the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency. Hall ...
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A Celebration of Character
& Courage: Vietnam War 50th | Air & Space Forces Association
Shine, advocate for national POW/MIA
accountability and daughter of Lt. Col. Anthony C.
Shine, USAF (MIA from 1972-1996); And more. VN50. An
Official ...
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Fighter plane missing since
WWII found 80 years later - Punch Newspapers
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency is currently investigating the
case following the discovery reported by the Italian
Naval League. Kindly ...
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Russell County soldier
killed in WWII laid to rest yesterday | Laker Country 104.9 FM
WJRS
Years of work by the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency led to the identification of Wade.
Gov. Andy Beshear ordered flags to half-staff
yesterday ...
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5o years later, Kissinger's
legacy still up for debate - The Iola Register
Former Secretary of State Henry
Kissinger addresses the Senate POW/MIA
committee Sept. 22, 1992. (Robert Giroux/AFP/Getty
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Her father died in WWII.
Now 79, she'll finally welcome him home. - Task & Purpose
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency identified the remains of Army 2nd
Lt. Gene F. Walker, 27, of Richmond, Indiana.
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Missing WWII Airman
Officially Accounted for Nearly 80 Years After Plane Shot Down
... POW/MIA Accounting
Agency. Hall was a left waist gunner on a B-24D
Liberator named Queen Marlene “when his plane was
attacked by German air forces ...
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Remains of a WWII heavy
bomber gunner identified nearly 80 years after his death - Tulsa
World
Hall, 21, of Leesburg, Florida, was
identified in July by scientists who used
anthropological and DNA analysis, the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency ...
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Soldier Accounted for from
WWII (Bishop, G.) - Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S.
Army Sergeant George F. Bishop, 22, of Centralia,
Washington, ...
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Missing World War II airman
finally coming home to Leesburg
The U.S. Army Airforce gunner was
killed in 1944 while flying a combat bombing mission
over France. The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA) ...
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11/30/2023
Hello Everyone,
Autumn is going well here in New England, although it is quite
chilly.
On the MIA front, the Coalition is doing what we can to persuade the U.S. and North Korea to resume recovery operations inside the DPRK. It is slow going, as you might imagine.
We are also pursuing pathways to access decades-old U.S. documents that can help families learn more about what happened to missing men from the Korean and Cold wars – the Bring Our Heroes Home Act (BOHHA). You likely have heard us mention it 😉. Researchers and family members have been shouldering the burden of filing freedom of information forms to request the release of these documents. The wait for a response can be years - for a single file. The BOHHA will reverse the process, mandating that government agencies declassify all P.O.W./M.I.A. related documents in one fell swoop. Information on any of the missing men might be found in these documents.
This legislation presents an opportunity to support the POW/MIA recovery mission by speaking up for the missing men. The BOHHA has been introduced to both chambers of Congress and assigned to committees:
~ In the Senate, the BOHHA (S.2315) has been assigned to the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee (HSGAC).
~ In the House, the BOHHA (H.R. 3110) has been assigned to the Oversight and Accountability committee.
The next step in moving the legislation forward is building support within the committees. Supporters of the mission can help by asking committee members to cosponsor S.2315/H.R.3110. A list of members who have signed or not signed is attached to this email. Please take a look. If you are a constituent, please ask that he/she cosponsors.
Contact information for each Senator can be found at:
https://www.coalitionoffamilies.org/us-senate-offices-contact-information.html
All Representative’s contact information can be located through this link:
https://www.house.gov/representatives/find-your-representative
Suggested messages to use in a phone call/email are also attached here. We hope they will be useful. If you have already reached out to these offices about the BOHHA, the first time was not a charm. That’s all right. Polite persistence is how these things are accomplished. Please do so again. Leaving a message is fine. Be sure to let them know you are a constituent. You can call right now if you like!
Special note to Kentucky and Michigan families: Sen. Gary Peters (MI) heads HSGAC. Sen. Rand Paul (KY) is Ranking Member (influential minority party leader) of HSGAC. Rep. James Comer (KY) Chairs the House Oversight committee. These three Members can be influential in allowing the legislation to come for floor votes in each chamber. Word of support from their constituents can mean a great deal to the bill’s success.
The Coalition coauthored the Bring Our Heroes Home Act with Congressional offices and fully endorses its passage. Again, building support within the committees is the next step in moving the legislation forward. We hope you will keep the pot stirred!
All the best, as always,
Rick
Richard Downes, President
Coalition of Families of
Korean & Cold War
POW/MIAs
25th Anniversary (1998-2023)
From:
DPAA NCR OC Mailbox Public Affairs <dpaa.ncr.oc.mbx.public-affairs@mail.mil>
Sent: 28 November, 2023 13:40
Subject: DPAA News Release - Washington Soldier Accounted for
from WWII
Greetings,
SGT Bishop was accounted for in June, but his family only recently received their full briefing on his identification, which is why this release is going out now.
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The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Army Sergeant George F. Bishop, 22, of Centralia, Washington, who was captured and died as a prisoner of war during World War II, was accounted for June 30, 2023.
In late 1942, Bishop was a member of Battery K, 3rd Battalion, 59th Coast Artillery Regiment, when Japanese forces invaded the Philippine Islands in December. Intense fighting continued until the surrender of the Bataan peninsula on April 9, 1942, and of Corregidor Island on May 6, 1942.
Thousands of U.S. and Filipino service members were captured and interned at POW camps. Bishop was among those reported captured when U.S. forces in Corregidor surrendered to the Japanese. They were subjected to the 65-mile Bataan Death March and then held at the Cabanatuan POW camp. More than 2,500 POWs perished in this camp during the war.
According to prison camp and other historical records, Bishop died July 28, 1942, and was buried along with other deceased prisoners in the local Cabanatuan Camp Cemetery in Common Grave 215.
Following the war, American Graves Registration Service (AGRS) personnel exhumed those buried at the Cabanatuan cemetery and relocated the remains to a temporary U.S. military mausoleum near Manila. In 1947, the AGRS examined the remains in an attempt to identify them. Five sets of remains from Common Grave 215 were identified, but the rest were declared unidentifiable. The unidentified remains were buried at the Manila American Cemetery and Memorial (MACM) as Unknowns.
In early 2018, the remains associated with Common Grave 215 were disinterred and sent to the DPAA laboratory for analysis. Among those remains were X-2875, believed to be Sgt. Bishop
To identify Bishop’s remains, scientists from DPAA used anthropological analysis, as well as circumstantial evidence. Additionally, scientists from the Armed Forces Medical Examiner System used mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) and Y chromosome DNA (Y-STR) analysis.
Although interred as an Unknown in MACM, Bishop’s grave was meticulously cared for over the past 70 years by the American Battle Monuments Commission (ABMC).
Bishop will be buried in Centralia, Washington, on a date to be determined.
For family and funeral information, contact the Army Casualty Office at (800) 892-2490.
DPAA is grateful to the ABMC and the United States Army for their partnership in this mission.
For additional information on the Defense Department’s mission to account for Americans who went missing while serving our country, visit the DPAA website at www.dpaa.mil, find us on social media at www.facebook.com/dodpaa or https://www.linkedin.com/company/defense-pow-mia-accounting-agency.
Bishop’s personnel profile can be viewed at https://dpaa-mil.sites.crmforce.mil/dpaaProfile?id=a0Jt0000000XfK8EAK.
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Texas soldier killed in France
during World War II laid to rest in San Antonio
... POW/MIA Accounting
Agency identified Smith's remains last year. (Rose L.
Thayer/Stars and Stripes). FORT SAM HOUSTON, Texas — Pfc.
Clinton Edward ...
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Remains of US army gunner shot
down in France found 80 years on - The Guardian
Franklin P Hall, who came from Leesburg
in Florida. Photograph: Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency.
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November
27, 2023 U.S. airman missing in France since 1944 now accounted for after remains analyzed
"A rosette will be placed next
to his name to indicate he has been accounted for," the
Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency said of the
World War II-era ...
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Airman Accounted for from WWII
(Hall, F.)
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Army Air
Force Staff Sgt. Franklin P. Hall, 21, of Leesburg,
Florida, ...
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Remains of a WWII heavy
bomber gunner identified nearly 80 years after his death
... POW/MIA Accounting
Agency said in a news release. Hall was assigned to
the 66th Bombardment Squadron, 44th Bombardment
Group (Heavy) in the ...
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Remains of a WWII heavy
bomber gunner identified nearly 80 years after his death
... POW/MIA Accounting
Agency). WASHINGTON — A U.S. Army Air Forces
gunner's ... POW/MIA Accounting Agency
said in a news release. Hall was assigned to ...
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Remains of a WWII heavy
bomber gunner identified nearly 80 years after his death - KTVZ
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency says Staff Sgt. Franklin P. Hall
was identified in July. Officials say the
21-year-old from Leesburg ...
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Remains of a WWII heavy
bomber gunner identified nearly 80 years after his death |
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November
25, 2023 Chappie James was a voice of strength and unity when we needed it most - Pensacola News Journal
They formed the National League
of POW/MIA Families to further their cause.
Representing the Department of Defense, James traveled the
county ...
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Remains of WWII soldier from
Indiana identified 79 years after his death in Germany - WKRC
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced on November 22 that the
remains of U.S. Army 2nd Lt. Gene F. Walker, who was only 27
at the ...
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Remains of World War II
Tank Commander Identified After 79 Years - The New York Times
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency, or D.P.A.A., a Defense Department
agency that tries to recover the bodies of service
members who go missing ...
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Military scientists identify
remains of Indiana soldier who died in German WWII battle - KWTX
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Photo Essay: Korean War
hero laid to rest in return to Wisconsin hometown after 73 years
, Part I
On June 20, 2023, the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency announced they had identified the
remains Pfc. Dickman officially. And on Oct. 21,
2023 ...
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Indiana Tank Commander's
Remains Identified 79 Years After WWII Battle - Bollyinside
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency has accounted for 1,543 missing
WWII soldiers since beginning its work in 1973.
Identification of Gene F ...
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The MIssing Man is missing
in Inverness | Letters to the Editor | chronicleonline.com
During this past year they were both
given POW/MIA flags by Rolling Thunder
FL. 7, Inverness, and neither City Hall (Seminole
St. side) nor the ...
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From:
DPAA NCR OC Mailbox Public Affairs <dpaa.ncr.oc.mbx.public-affairs@mail.mil>
Sent: 27 November, 2023 13:08
Subject: DPAA News Release - Florida Airman Accounted for
from WWII
Greetings,
SSgt Hall was accounted for in July, but his family only recently received their full briefing on his identification, which is why this release is going out now.
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The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Army Air Force Staff Sgt. Franklin P. Hall, 21, of Leesburg, Florida, killed during World War II, was accounted for July 13, 2023.
In January 1944, Hall was assigned to the 66th Bombardment Squadron, 44th Bombardment Group (Heavy) in the European Theater. On Jan. 21, Hall, a left waist gunner on board a B-24D Liberator Queen Marlene, was killed in action when his plane was attacked by German air forces near Équennes-Éramecourt, France. German forces quickly found the crash site and recovered nine sets of remains, which were then interred them in the French cemetery at Poix-de-Picardie. Hall’s remains were not accounted for after the war.
Beginning in 1945, the American Graves Registration Command (AGRC), the organization that searched for and recovered fallen American personnel in the European Theater, searched the area around Équennes-Éramecourt. None of the investigations uncovered any leads regarding the disposition of Hall’s remains. He was declared non-recoverable on March 01, 1951.
DPAA historians have been conducting on-going research into Soldiers missing from combat around Équennes-Éramecourt and found that X-391 St. Andre (X-391) and X-393 St. Andre (X-393), buried in Normandy American Cemetery, an American Battle Monuments Commission site, could be associated with Hall. X-391 and X-393 were disinterred in April 2018 and transferred to the DPAA Laboratory for analysis where it was later determined the remains of X-393 belonged to Hall.
To identify Hall’s remains, scientists from DPAA used anthropological analysis. Additionally, scientists from the Armed Forces Medical Examiner System used mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) and Y-chromosome DNA (Y-STR) analysis.
Hall’s name is recorded on the Tablets of the Missing at Ardennes American Cemetery, France, along with others still missing from WWII. A rosette will be placed next to his name to indicate he has been accounted for.
Hall will be buried in Leesburg, Florida, on a date to be determined.
For family and funeral information, contact the Army Casualty Office at (800) 892-2490.
For additional information on the Defense Department’s mission to account for Americans who went missing while serving our country, visit the DPAA website at www.dpaa.mil or find us on social media at www.facebook.com/dodpaa or https://www.linkedin.com/company/defense-pow-mia-accounting-agency.
Hall’s personnel profile can be viewed at https://dpaa-mil.sites.crmforce.mil/dpaaProfile?id=a0Jt0000000cc5REAQ.
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Remains of WWII Soldier from
Indiana Identified Nearly 79 Years After His Death - People
Gene F. Walker will be buried in San
Diego in early 2024, according to the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency.
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VA medical center petulantly
removes ENTIRE “missing man” table rather than remove Bible from it!
In what can best be described as an “I'm
gonna take my marbles and go home” move, a VA medical
center in Kentucky has removed the entire POW/MIA ...
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12787483/Remains-Indiana-soldier-identified-WWII-battle.html
Remains of Indiana soldier found in burned-out
tank in Germany are finally identified nearly EIGHT DECADES after he
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Nearly 80 years later, remains
of Richmond World War II hero identified - Pal-Item
According to a release from the
Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA), a
Sherman tank that Walker was a commander of was struck by a
a German ...
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US identifies remains of
WW2 tank commander killed in 1944 - BBC
"The hit caused a fire and is
believed to have killed Walker instantaneously," the
Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA),
an organisation ...
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Remains of World War II
Soldier, Rockville Centre, New York, native, to be buried ... -
Yonkers Times
X-635 was disinterred by the
Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency in June 2018
for analysis and identification. Schmidt was accounted for
by the DPAA ...
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Indiana WWII soldier's
remains identified after nearly 80 years - Fox News
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency has announced the identification
of the remains of U.S. Army 2nd Lt. Gene F. Walker,
who died in World War ...
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The remains of an Indiana WWII
soldier have been identified after nearly 80 years
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency announced Wednesday that the remains of
2nd Lt. Gene F. Walker of Wealthymond, Indiana, of the US
Army was ...
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Military scientists
identify remains of Indiana soldier who died in German WWII
battle - MSN
... The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency announced Wednesday that the
remains of U.S. Army 2nd Lt. Gene F. Walker of
Richmond, Indiana, were id...
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Rockville Centre, New York
Native WWII Soldier's Remains to be Buried at Arlington ... -
Bollyinside
His remains were recovered in the
Warendorf area and later identified by the Defense
POW/MIA Accounting Agency. Media
interested in covering the ...
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Richmond man killed during
World War II identified - Fox 59
A Richmond man killed during
World War II was officially identified by the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency earlier this year.
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Double funeral for WWII Aircrew
missing for 79 years
... POW/MIA
Accounting Agency's Public Affairs Office and External
Relations ... Nicole Eilers, Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency historical analyst for ...
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Remains of WWII soldier
from Indiana identified | To be laid to rest next year - WTHR
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency identified the remains of U.S.
Army 2nd Lt. Gene F. Walker. Walker died in a battle
with German forces in ...
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Military scientists
identify remains of Indiana soldier who died in German WWII
battle - SFGATE
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency announced Wednesday that the
remains of U.S. Army 2nd Lt. Gene F. Walker of
Richmond, Indiana, were identified ...
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Military scientists
identify remains of Indiana soldier who died in German WWII
battle - KRDO
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency said Wednesday the remains of U.S.
Army 2nd Lt. Gene F. Walker of Richmond, Indiana,
were identified nearly ...
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Military scientists
identify remains of Indiana soldier who died in German WWII
battle | Us
This image released by the Defense
POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) shows
U.S. Army 2nd Lt. Gene F. Walker, of Richmond, Ind.,
who was killed ...
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Indiana WWII tank commander
remains recovered | MyWabashValley.com
According to a release from the
Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA),
Walker was believed to have lost his life while
piloting the tank when ...
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Military service planned for
World War II soldier from Corpus Christi - Caller-Times
“More recent efforts by Defense
POW/MIA Accounting Agency historians
conducting on-going research into soldiers missing from
combat around ...
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Farewell to a fallen brother on
ColumbiaMagazine.com
Eventually, more studies were
conducted in the area and a Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA) historian determined that one set
of ...
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Tanker Accounted for from
WWII (Walker, G.)
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S.
Army 2nd Lt. Gene F. Walker, 27, of Richmond,
Indiana, killed during World ...
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Female Vietnam vet,
journalist, reflects on battlefield experience | Article -
Army.mil
The POW/MIA team is
still looking for his remains. From medical
evacuation pilots to nurses to infantrymen, everyone
loved the newspapers. If ...
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A family's wait continues
to find loved one from the Bataan Death March - Brainerd
Dispatch
“Good afternoon, welcome and thank
you all for being here to honor our POW and
MIA American Armed Forces both living and
those gone. I am Jim Knudsen ...
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California Soldier Accounted
From Korean War - TPG, Inc. - Nation World News
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that US Army Cpl.
Daniel De Anda, 22, of Pico, California, a soldier who died
as a ...
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USS Oklahoma Sailor
Accounted for from WWII (Boudreaux, R.)
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that Navy
Mess Attendant 1st Class Ralph M. Boudreaux, 20, of
New Orleans, ...
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Long-awaited homecoming:
World War II hero finally laid to rest after 80 years | WOAI
SAN ANTONIO — World War II Army
Private First Class Clinton E. Smith, Jr.'s remains
were discovered nearly 80 years later by the Defense
POW/MIA ...
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Research in Guadalcanal
aims to bring servicemen home to the U.S. | Binghamton News
... POW/MIA Accounting
Agency (DPAA). Records show that the bodies of 17
American servicemembers lost in the battle were
never recovered, Lipo said ...
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American Killed in Pearl
Harbor Finally Returning to Louisiana Family After 82 Years
... POW/MIA Accounting
Agency. They have been able to identify more than
280,000 Americans since the group's inception, and
an additional 1,000 since ...
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Veterans of Foreign Wars
Auxiliary Honors V-S High School Students | Vinton Newspapers
The wording on the Rylee and Paige's
exhibit included the terms spelled out rather than
the typical POW/MIA abbreviation,
which caught the VFW ...
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From:
DPAA NCR OC Mailbox Public Affairs <dpaa.ncr.oc.mbx.public-affairs@mail.mil>
Sent: 22 November, 2023 11:04
Subject: DPAA News Release - Indiana Tanker Accounted for from
WWII
Greetings,
2LT Walker was accounted for in July, but his family only recently received their full briefing on his identification, which is why this release is going out now.
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The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Army 2nd Lt. Gene F. Walker, 27, of Richmond, Indiana, killed during World War II, was accounted for July 21, 2023.
In November 1944, Walker was assigned to Company H, 3rd Battalion, 32nd Armored Regiment, 3rd Armored Division, as the commander of an M4 Sherman tank. His unit was engaged in battle with German forces near Hücheln, Germany, when his tank was hit by an 88-mm anti-tank round. The hit caused a fire and is believed to have killed Walker instantaneously. The surviving crew bailed out of the tank, but when they regrouped later were unable to remove Walker from the tank due to heavy fighting. The War Department issued a presumptive finding of death in April 1945.
Following the end of the war, the American Graves Registration Command was tasked with investigating and recovering missing American personnel in Europe. They conducted several investigations in the Hücheln area September 1948. Town locals were interviewed, but there were no reports of deceased American servicemembers in the area. All efforts to locate 2LT Walker proved unsuccessful at the time.
While studying unresolved American losses in the Hücheln area, a DPAA historian determined that one set of unidentified remains, designated X-157 Henri-Chapelle, recovered from one of the burned-out tanks in Hücheln in December 1944 possibly belonged to Walker. The remains, which had been buried in Henri-Chapelle U.S. Military Cemetery, an American Battle Monuments Commission site in Hombourg, Belgium, were disinterred in August 2021 and sent to the DPAA laboratory for analysis.
To identify Walker’s remains, scientists from DPAA used anthropological analysis, as well as circumstantial evidence. Additionally, scientists from the Armed Forces Medical Examiner System used mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA).
Walker’s name is recorded on the Walls of the Missing at Netherlands American Cemetery, an American Battle Monuments Commission site in Margarten, Netherlands, along with the others still missing from World War II. A rosette will be placed next to his name to indicate he has been accounted for.
Walker will be buried in San Diego, California, in early 2024
For family and funeral information, contact the Army Casualty Office at (800) 892-2490.
DPAA is grateful to the American Battle Monuments Commission and to the U.S. Army Regional Mortuary-Europe/Africa for their partnership in this mission.
For additional information on the Defense Department’s mission to account for Americans who went missing while serving our country, visit the DPAA website at www.dpaa.mil, and find us on social media at www.facebook.com/dodpaa or https://www.linkedin.com/company/defense-pow-mia-accounting-agency.
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S. Korea, U.S. to hold joint war
remains investigation in Pyeongchang
KIA stands for killed in action,
while POW and MIA are acronyms for prisoners of
war and missing in action, respectively. During the meeting ...
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Airman Accounted for from WWII
(Brindley, K.)
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Army
Air Force 2nd Lt. Kenyon Brindley, 23, of Little Rock,
Arkansas, ...
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PFC Henry J. McConnell –
Pawtucket | Obituaries | valleybreeze.com
PFC Henry J. McConnell, a WWII POW-MIA,
veteran and dedicated member of the U.S. Army Air Force,
stationed in the Philippines and captured during ...
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Henry McConnell Obituary - J.
J. Duffy A Life Celebration Home - 2023 - Legacy.com
Pawtucket, PFC. Henry J. McConnell, a
WWII POW-MIA, veteran and dedicated member
of the US Army Air Force, stationed in the Philippines
and ...
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Korea, US to hold joint war
remains investigation in Pyeongchang
... POW/MIA
Accounting Agency and the Australian Army's Unrecovered War
Casualties team at MAKRI's office in Seoul, Nov. 13. Yonhap.
Korea and the ...
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California Soldier
Accounted for from Korean War — TPG, Inc.
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S.
Army Cpl. Daniel De Anda, 22, of Pico, California, a
soldier who died as a ...
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Missing Second World War
pilot located after 80 years - MSN
To find the stories you want to read,
and more, in your inbox, click here. Myershero.jpeg
(Image via US Defence POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA)) ...
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Missing Second World War pilot
located after 80 years | The Independent
( Image via US Defence POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA)). Last month, investigators
announced they had located human remains belonging to
Myers ...
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WWII Airman From Queens
Accounted For – Long Island Weekly
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced yesteryday that
U.S. Army Air Forces Staff Sgt. Robert J. Ferris
Jr., 20, of Jamaica ...
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Army Air Force Pfc.
McConnell accounted for from WWII - Audacy
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced recently that
U.S. Army Air Force Pfc. Henry J. McConnell, 28, of
Pawtucket, Rhode Island, ...
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Americans Watching Biden's
Meeting With Xi 'Disgusted' When They Notice Big 'Red Flag'
See POW/MIA flag
information below. (AR 840-10, MCO 1052.3, & AFI
34-1201). Non-military flags are not authorized in
any military color guard, no ...
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Airman Accounted for from
WWII (Ferris, R.)
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S.
Army Air Forces Staff Sgt. Robert J. Ferris Jr., 20,
of Long Island, ...
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Army Air Force Sgt. Goings,
killed as a POW in World War II, accounted for - Audacy
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced recently that
U.S. Army Air Force Sergeant White S. Goings Jr.,
22, of Auburn, Nebraska, ...
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Remains of local WWII
soldier to be brought home Saturday | Laker Country 104.9 FM
WJRS
Years of work by the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency led to the identification of Wade.
He will be laid to rest at Mill Springs National ...
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Buried on the Battlefield:
UW team helps identify MIA service members from WWII &
beyond
Buttery says the War Memorial Center
will open a permanent exhibit in the early spring,
honoring Prisoners of War and Missing in Action (POW/MIA) ...
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Home of the Brave |
Ellington - Connection Newspapers
Henry M. Spengler; and Helen Curtis
Versace, sister-in-law of POW/MIA
Rocky Versace. Participating in the ceremony were
members of the St. Rita ...
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Utah Marine who went missing in
Vietnam War buried on Veterans Day in American Fork
Capt. Ralph Jim Chipman was
accounted for earlier this year after the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency found his teeth, bone fragments and
dog ...
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Remains of Pawtucket WWII
airman identified, to be buried in Rhode Island - WJAR
(WJAR) — The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced last week that a
Pawtucket man, who had been a member of the U.S.
Army Air Force ...
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Ryan Corbett, 40, was captured last year while visiting Afghanistan, where he had lived with his family as an aid worker for nearly a decade, but his plight was not publicly revealed until Tuesday.
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Mystery of missing WW2
pilot solved by Cranfield scientists - BBC News
2nd Lt Gilbert Haldeen Myers Image
source, Defense POW/MIA Accounting
Agency (DPAA). Image caption,. 2nd Lt Gilbert
Haldeen Myers went missing after ...
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Remains of Columbus pilot
killed during World War II found | 10tv.com
10TV's Lindsey Mills caught up with
them in October for their reaction to the discovery
of his remains being identified. Credit: Defense
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Answer Line: Group helps unite
bracelets with former POW/MIA service members
I spoke to Mary Schantag,
chairwoman of the nonprofit organization P.O.W. Network
in Missouri, and she told me that some people made their
own ...
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POW-MIA
bracelets, timeless reminders of a Vietnam War hero - NBC
Montana
In the early 1970's, supporters of
our MIA and POW military service
members began wearing special bracelets to support
their loved ones. Captain ...
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U.S.S. Arizona Family
Members Cross Halfway Point in Identifying Commingled Unknowns
... POW/MIA Accounting
Agency (DPAA) should rightfully bear. While the U.S.
Navy, U.S. Marine Corps, the Pentagon, and the DPAA
now collaborate with ...
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POW MIA
bracelets, timeless reminders of a Vietnam War hero - YouTube
It's been almost 50-years since the
war in Vietnam officially ended. In 1973, there were
22 Montana service people listed as Missing in
Action in ...
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The carefully preserved artifacts include
a posthumously awarded Silver Star for fearless
devotion during World War II, an image of the USS
Fremont ...
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Missing Veteran Killed in Vietnam to Be Laid to Rest in Utah After 50 Years |
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Divers find dog tags and a
ring in the wreck of a WWII bomber at sea - The Washington Post
... POW/MIA Accounting
Agency). Listen. 7 min. Share. Comment0. Add to your
saved stories. Save. Florence Darrigan was living
with her parents on Main ...
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Rajnath Singh hands over
World war era US army uniform, plane parts found in Assam to
Austin
... POW/MIA) Accounting
Agency Mission. Lloyd Austin and US secretary of
state Antony Blinken held the 2+2 India-US
ministerial dialogues with Union ...
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Family reveals Korean War
POW story - Sgt. Robert T. Hesselink | News | cadillacnews.com
But they are thankful for the
recent recognition given to him and Dale H. Williams on
September 16, during the POW/MIA Recognition
Day. “My father ...
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WWII Pilot Laid to Rest in
Florida After Being Labeled MIA for 80 Years - The Messenger
According to a news release from
the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA),
U.S. Army Air Forces 2nd Lt. Gilbert H. Myers was
co-piloting a ...
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Black Army veteran set to
receive Medal of Honor decades after heroic service - ABC
News
Willie Merkerson, Jr. and his
daughter talk about the Medal of Honor the
retired Army Major is set to receive decades after
his heroic actions in ...
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House passes bill to put
Medal of Honor Monument near Lincoln Memorial in DC |
KSL.com
The U.S. House of Representatives
passed a bill sponsored by Utah Rep. Blake Moore to
put a monument to Medal of Honor recipients
near the Lincoln ...
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Family of Portland Medal
of Honor recipient touches relics from his time at war -
YouTube
The Loring family received a package
full of debris from the plane shot down in WWII.
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Family of Portland Medal
of Honor recipient gets wartime relics - News Center Maine
The Loring family received a package
full of debris from the plane shot down in World War
II.
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Hughestown family learns fate of
WWII POW | 28/22 News - PAhomepage.com
Local family learns story of MIA,
POW WWII vet. 38 seconds ago. 7 pounds of weed seized
during traffic stop. 10 mins ago. FBI seized phones, iPad
from ...
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World War II pilot laid to rest
in St. Pete after 80 years MIA - WDHN
A Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency laboratory analysis found they
belonged to the missing pilot. His remains were buried
in St. Petersburg on ...
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Missouri State Rep Smith honors
POW/MIAs in Branson | News | bransontrilakesnews.com
Network
Chairman Mary Schantag, Posting of the Colors, National
Anthem, Pledge of Allegiance, opening prayer and recognition
of family and dignitaries ...
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Waterloo Vietnam MIA's
daughter keeps memory alive - Iowa Capital Dispatch
She awakened her mother and sister.
She eventually took on the task of receiving updates
from the government — The U.S. Department of Defense
POW-MIA ...
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Gold Star Families to be
honored during Veterans Day Parade | | nrtoday.com
... POW/MIA Recognition
Day Ceremony in front of the Douglas County
Courthouse Friday afternoon.s. DREW WINKELMAIER The
News-Review. 231020-nrr-letter-4 ...
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An opportunity to reflect:
Veterans honored at 15th annual Veterans Day Assembly at ...
"That was one of the nicest POW/MIA
ceremonies I have ever seen." As part of his
remarks, guest speaker Scott Anderson, Desert
Shield/Desert Storm ...
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Wadena woman honors
veterans through volunteer work
The event included selling raffle
tickets, working with the VFW to coordinate a meal
and space to host the POW/MIA Day, and
raising money for the ...
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MIA:
Tennesseans still missing from war | Local News | timesnews.net
POW/MIA
graphic. Chelsea Gillenwater. Facebook · Twitter ·
WhatsApp · LinkedIn · SMS · Email; Print; Copy
article link; Save. featured. WATCH NOW: ...
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Greendale Veterans Memorial
will add another piece this weekend - TMJ4
"On Saturday, Veteran's Day, we're
going to be dedicating a POW-MIA
plaque," Baranzyk said. That ceremony will take
place at 10 a.m. on Saturday ...
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Veterans Day programs
planned - Houston Herald
It is organized by Cabool Veterans of
Foreign Wars and Houston American Legion. A POW-MIA
table will be on display. Most governmental offices
are ...
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Focus on enhancing defence
industrial cooperation between India & US Shri Rajnath Singh ...
- PIB
The Raksha Mantri symbolically handed
over to Secretary Austin some items recovered in
Assam as part of the US Defence POW MIA
Accounting Agency ...
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Remains of Leitchfield WWII
soldier to be buried in Radcliff - Messenger-Inquirer
His remains were not immediately
identified. Wells was accounted for by the Defense
POW/MIA Accounting Agency on May 26 of
this year following ...
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Tri-Cities Air Force pilot
still missing after 55 years. Family asks for help
The excavation of a site where MIA
... Vietnamese witnesses were interviewed over the
last decade by the U.S. Department of POW/MIA
Accounting Agency ( ...
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Some military families are
still awaiting their veteran's return — 50 years later | Opinion
After Operation Homecoming ended
in 1973, some American families are still awaiting the
return of veterans who have been declared POW or
MIA.
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MIA
Alliance soldier William J. Herrington's remains ID'd - Canton
Repository
Remains of 19-year-old Alliance
veteran, who was MIA since 1950, will be buried at Arlington
National Cemetery ... The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency ...
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Holding on to hope: Polk
County couple finally meets prisoner of war to return
bracelet
Couple wears POW bracelets for
30 years ... DAVENPORT, Fla. - Donald and Donna
Rogers wore bracelets on their wrists for three
decades, honoring ...
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Soldier Accounted for from WWII
(Smith, C.)
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Army Pfc.
Clinton E. Smith, Jr., 19, of Wichita Falls, Texas, killed
during ...
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Soldier Accounted for from
Korean War (Herrington, W.)
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S.
Army Cpl. William J. Herrington, 19, of Alliance,
Ohio, killed during the ...
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Bill Hunt: Missing in
action; never forgotten | Bonner County Daily Bee
... POW/MIA Day in late
September. Held on the third Friday in September,
National POW/MIA Day remembers those
who served, who were prisoners of war ...
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World War II Pilot's
Funeral Planned In St. Petersburg | St. Pete, FL Patch
... POW/MIA Accounting
Agency said. Find out what's happening in St.
Petewith free, real-time updates from Patch.
Subscribe. As Myers plane released ...
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WWII pilot accounted for after
80 years to be honored with service in St. Pete - WTSP.com
Credit: Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency ... On July 10, he was serving as a
co-pilot on a B-25 Mitchell bomber when the plane was shot
down over ...
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Utah Vietnam War veteran
finally being laid to rest - KSL NewsRadio
U.S. Marine Corps Capt. Ralph Jim
Chipman went missing 50 years ago. The Defense
POW/MIA Accounting Agency found his
remains in August and they will ...
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China, US hold video
meeting on cooperation to find remains of American prisoners of
war ...
The Chinese and American militaries
held a video meeting on cooperation to find the
remains of American POW/MIA (Prisoner
of War/Missing in ...
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Korean War veteran's
remains found after 72 years, service in Anderson - Greenville
Online
Nearly seventy-three years later,
Gosnell's remains were accounted for by scientists
at the Defense POW/MIA Accounting
Agency (DPAA) in Honolulu, ...
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‘My radio to heaven’: Online VA memorial adds the names and stories of millions of veterans, service membersThe names and legacies of nearly 5 million veterans and service members have been added to an online database operated by the Department of Veterans Affairs, doubling the number of individuals whose military records and contributions are commemorated. |
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Airman Accounted for from
WWII (McConnell, H.)
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S.
Army Air Force Pfc. Henry J. McConnell, 28, of
Pawtucket, Rhode Island, ...
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WWII Pilot From Pittsburgh
Shot Down In 1943, Coming Home. Will Be Laid To Rest In Florida
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced that U.S. Army
Air Forces 2nd Lt. Gilbert H. Myers, 27, of
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania,...
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Family Member Takes Matters
Into Own Hands to Identify the USS Arizona Unknowns
... POW/MIA Accounting
Agency (DPAA) regarding the lack of efforts to
identify the USS Arizona unknowns. Kline was
informed that the "task of locating ...
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Rancho Bernardo woman
continues decades-long mission to discover fate of her husband
...
In fiscal year 2023, the Defense
POW/MIA Accounting Agency said it
recovered the remains of 127 service members. Of
these 88 were from World War II, ...
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Seminole Soldier's Remains
Accounted for after Decades, To Be Laid to Rest
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency made an announcement on Tuesday
that the remains of a U.S. Army soldier from
Seminole who was killed in the ...
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Local veterans welcome home
remains of Miamisburg soldier killed in Korean War
He was killed in the Korean War in
1950 and went unaccounted until May 31 when the
Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency
announced they found his body.
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Remains of World War II
soldier buried in Holly Township - Tri-County Times
The remains of Army Tech. Sgt.
Leonard J. Dettloff was accounted for by the Defense
POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) May
5, 2023, after his remains ...
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Prayers were answered when
Thomas Parrott was released as a POW - Dalton Daily Citizen
Sellers interviewed his mother-in-law
after a story of Thomas Parrott was published in the
Dalton Daily Citizen on Sept. 15, National POW/MIA ...
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Wreaths Across America raising
money to place wreaths on veterans graves at Mountain Home
But Rolling Thunder, a Sullivan County
organization that brings awareness to POW-MIA
issues, helped spur the movement forward. Rolling
Thunder is ...
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Airman Accounted for from
WWII (Goings Jr, W.)
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S.
Army Air Force Sergeant White S. Goings Jr., 22, of
Auburn, Nebraska, ...
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Soldier Accounted for from
WWII (Short, L.)
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S.
Army Cpl. R. V. Leo Short, 19, of Seminole,
Oklahoma, killed during the ...
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WWII KIA interred in the
Ohio Western Reserve National Cemetery on Monday | Medina
Gazette
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency said in a news release that Rinke
was assigned to the 678th Bombardment Squadron,
444th Bombardment Group ...
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Remains of 10 US WWII
service members sought in dig at remote German farm
That changed in 2015, when the
Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency
opened a detachment in Germany to recover the
remains of Americans who went missing ...
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Wreaths Across America
seeks to ID unmarked veterans' graves in Newcastle Cemetery
District
No matter where they served or how:
Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, Merchant Marines,
Coast Guard, POW/MIA or Space Force,
Wreaths Across America ...
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A Tehachapi man went
missing in North Vietnam in 1968; he'll be honored with a bench
...
... POW/MIA service
people. Clow wore a bracelet inscribed “Lt. Gilbert
Micthell, 3-6-68.” She still has it. In January
1973, Tehachapi News reported ...
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Missing WWII sailor finally
rests in peace back home - Weirton Daily Times
Presumed dead, but unidentified for
more than 80 years due to technological constraints,
Galaszewski was accounted for by the Defense POW/MIA ...
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'We remember': Air Force pilot
talks about bringing home long missing service members
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency's website, dpaa.mil, contains a wealth of
information about its efforts to locate and bring home the
remains ...
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Crowds honor WWII sailor during
funeral procession | News, Sports, Jobs - The Herald Star
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency identified Galaszewski's remains using DNA
analysis and officially listed him as accounted for on May
23 ...
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Korean War veteran reminds
people to wave the flag this Veterans Day - KTAR News
Navy Cross
recipient remembers bravery of comrades during
Vietnam War. “We got hit by a shell in Korea when we
were firing over there,” Hecht ...
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PAHomepage.com · Our Strangest
Stories About Smuggling · Captured Pilot Resists Torture and
Helps Fellow Prisoners #pow #mia #militaryhistory
#veteran.
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Steubenville native
Galaszewski laid to rest 82 years after Pearl Harbor | WTOV
In 2018, the remains of 25 crew
members were exhumed and later identified by DNA and
other evidence in work done by the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting ...
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Home after 73 years: Fort McCoy
Soldiers pay honors to Korean War hero in local community
... POW/MIA
Accounting Agency, or DPAA, news release states. “He was not
seen to fall in battle, and he was not reported to be a
prisoner of war ...
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Remains of local Korean War
soldier identified 73 years later - Yahoo Finance
In July 2018, the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency proposed a plan to disinter 652
Korean War Unknowns from the Punchbowl. In Oct.
2019, the DPAA ...
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Remains of Miamisburg soldier
killed in 1950 in Korea coming home - WYSO
Those remains were exhumed in
2019, and the Defense POW/MIA Accounting
Agency finally identified them as Pfc. Debord earlier this
year. He will be ...
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Local soldier killed in
Korean War to be buried in Miamisburg next week - WHIO-TV
News Center 7 reported back in June
that the Defense POW/MIA Accounting
Agency analyzed his remains and identified DeBord.
He will be buried at ...
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Descendant reflects on
missing service member's return - Weirton Daily Times
It wasn't until the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency began its own identification
efforts using anthropological analysis in 2018 that
a breakthrough ...
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Veterans escort remains of
Pearl Harbor casualty | News, Sports, Jobs - The Review
Galaszewski, who was born in
Steubenville on Sept. 5, 1912, and served on the USS
California, was accounted for by the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting ...
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Remains of World War II
veteran from Spokane laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency continued work to identify remains
from the wreckage. Eventually, they linked the
remains to Triplett, who ...
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WWII pilot to be buried in
St. Pete after 80 years MIA - MSN
A Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency laboratory analyzed additional
remains that were discovered among wreckage in 2021
and 2022. They were found ...
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Remains of Korean War
Soldier to be buried in Miamisburg, Ohio - DVIDS
The Army issued a presumptive finding
of death for him of Dec. 31, 1953. On Oct. 21, 2019,
the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency
disinterred a set of ...
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Remains of local Korean War
soldier identified 73 years later - Dayton Daily News
On Oct. 21, 2019, the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency disinterred a set of remains
designated Unknown X-945 — for laboratory analysis —
from the ...
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Remains of local Korean War soldier identified 73 years later - Journal-News
From:
DPAA NCR OC Mailbox Public Affairs <dpaa.ncr.oc.mbx.public-affairs@mail.mil>
Sent: 20 November, 2023 11:00
Subject: DPAA News Release - Arkansas Airman Accounted
for from WWII
Greetings,
2LT Brindley was accounted for in September, but his family only recently received their full briefing on his identification, which is why this release is going out now.
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The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Army Air Force 2nd Lt. Kenyon Brindley, 23, of Little Rock, Arkansas, killed during World War II, was accounted for Sept. 21, 2023.
In early 1944, Brindley was assigned to the 703rd Bombardment Squadron, 445th Bombardment Group, 8th Air Force in the European Theater. On Feb 24, Brindley, a bombardier onboard a B-24J “Liberator”, was killed in action when his plane was hit by heavy anti-aircraft fire over Gotha, Germany. One of the surviving crewmembers reported seeing the plane on fire and in a steep dive, before eventually exploding on the ground. While two crewmembers survived, the others, including Brindley, were killed in the incident. German forces garrisoned in the area documented the crash site north of Leimbach Bahnhof, near Bad Salzungen, Germany. After the crash, German troops recovered the remains of the ball turret gunner and buried them in a local cemetery. The other six crewmembers, including Brindley, were unaccounted for following the war.
In March 1952, the American Graves Registration Command (AGRC), the organization that searched for and recovered fallen American personnel in the European Theater, took custody of comingled unidentified remains recovered from Bad Salzungen Cemetery. These remains, X-9093 Griesheim Mausoleum (X-9093), X-9094 Griesheim Mausoleum (X-9094), and X-9095 Griesheim Mausoleum (X-9095), were believed to be those belonging to 2nd Lt. Brindley’s downed aircraft. At the time, identification of these remains was not possible, and they were interred in the Ardennes American Cemetery, Belgium.
In June 2021, DPAA historians and American Battle Monuments Commission personnel, exhumed X-9093, X-9094, and X-9095 from Ardennes American Cemetery and transferred them to the DPAA Laboratory for analysis and identification.
To identify Brindley’s remains, scientists from DPAA used anthropological analysis. Additionally, scientists from the Armed Forces Medical Examiner System used mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) analysis.
Brindley’s name is recorded on the Tablets of the Missing at Henri-Chapelle American Cemetery, Hombourg, Belgium, along with others still missing from WWII. A rosette will be placed next to his name to indicate he has been accounted for.
Brindley will be buried on Dec. 18, 2023, in Conway, Arkansas.
For family and funeral information, contact the Army Casualty Office at (800) 892-2490.
For additional information on the Defense Department’s mission to account for Americans who went missing while serving our country, visit the DPAA website at www.dpaa.mil or find us on social media at www.facebook.com/dodpaa or https://www.linkedin.com/company/defense-pow-mia-accounting-agency.
Brindley’s personnel profile can be viewed at https://dpaa-mil.sites.crmforce.mil/dpaaProfile?id=a0Jt0000000XfFhEAK.
From:
DPAA NCR OC Mailbox Public Affairs <dpaa.ncr.oc.mbx.public-affairs@mail.mil>
Sent: 17 November, 2023 11:16
Subject: DPAA News Release - New York Airman Accounted for from
WWII
Greetings,
SSgt Ferris was accounted for in September, but his family only recently received their full briefing on his identification, which is why this release is going out now.
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The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Army Air Forces Staff Sgt. Robert J. Ferris Jr., 20, of Long Island, New York, killed during World War II, was accounted for Sept. 22, 2023.
In December of 1942, Ferris was assigned to the 401st Bombardment Squadron, 91st Bombardment Group (Heavy), Eighth Air Force. On December 20, Ferris was a crewmember onboard a B-17F “Flying Fortress,” nicknamed Danellen, when it was struck by anti-aircraft fire after a bombing raid on a German aircraft factory at Romilly-sur-Seine, France. Ferris’s aircraft was last seen spinning towards the ground, crashing near the village of Bernières-sur-Seine, France. Only one airman parachuted successfully, while the other eight crew members, including Ferris, were still on board. A villager witnessed the crash and confirmed there was only one survivor. The War Department issued a finding of death for Staff Sgt. Ferris on Sept. 23, 1943.
Beginning in 1946, the American Graves Registration Command (AGRC), Army Quartermaster Corps, was the organization tasked with recovering missing American personnel in the European Theater. Following the war, the AGRC disinterred four sets of remains later designated as X-83, X-84, X-85, and X-86 St. Andre from Evreux cemetery. They were unable to identify the remains and were interred at the Normandy American Cemetery.
In 2011, a family member of one of the Danellen crew contacted the Department of Defense after visiting the crash site and interviewing a witness who had artifacts belonging to the Danellen. In April 2011, DPAA historians re-analyzed the unknowns associated with the crew and determined there was enough evidence to pursue the case. In October that year, a DPAA Investigation Team traveled to Bernières-sur-Seine to interview the witness and learned the crash site was completely destroyed. In March 2019, the Department of Defense and the American Battle Monuments Commission (ABMC) exhumed the unknown remains designated X-83, X-85, and X-86 St. Andre believed to be associated with the crew of the Danellen, including Staff Sgt. Ferris, from Normandy American Cemetery.
To identify Ferris’s remains, scientists from DPAA used anthropological analysis. Additionally, scientists from the Armed Forces Medical Examiner System used mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) analysis.
Ferris’s name is recorded on the memorialized on the Wall of the Missing at Cambridge American Cemetery, an American Battle Monuments Commission site in Cambridge, England, along with others still missing from WWII. A rosette will be placed next to his name to indicate he has been accounted for.
Ferris will be buried in New Bern, North Carolina, on a date to be determined.
For family and funeral information, contact the Army Casualty Office at (800) 892-2490.
For additional information on the Defense Department’s mission to account for Americans who went missing while serving our country, visit the DPAA website at www.dpaa.mil or find us on social media at www.facebook.com/dodpaa or https://www.linkedin.com/company/defense-pow-mia-accounting-agency.
Ferris’s personnel profile can be viewed at: https://dpaa-mil.sites.crmforce.mil/dpaaProfile?id=a0Jt0000000Xh99EAC.
From:
DPAA NCR OC Mailbox Public Affairs <dpaa.ncr.oc.mbx.public-affairs@mail.mil>
Sent: 9 November, 2023 14:14
Subject: DPAA News Release - Texas Soldier Accounted for from
WWII
Greetings,
PFC Smith was accounted for in September, but his family only recently received their full briefing on his identification, which is why this release is going out now.
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The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Army Pfc. Clinton E. Smith, Jr., 19, of Wichita Falls, Texas, killed during World War II, was accounted for Sept. 28, 2022.
In January 1945, Smith was assigned to Company D, 1st Battalion, 157th Infantry Regiment, 45th Infantry Division. The unit was engaged with German forces during the Battle of Reipertswiller in France and was surrounded, along with four other companies. Smith was killed in an artillery strike on Jan. 14, but his body could not be recovered because of the fighting.
Beginning in 1946, the American Graves Registration Command (AGRC), the organization that searched for and recovered fallen American personnel in the European Theater, searched the area around Reipertswiller, finding 37 unidentified sets of American remains, none of which could be identified as Smith. He was declared non-recoverable on March 29, 1951.
DPAA historians have been conducting on-going research into Soldiers missing from combat around Reipertswiller, and found that X-6985 St. Avold, which had been buried at Lorraine American Cemetery, an American Battle Monuments Commission site in St. Avold, France, could be associated with Smith. X-6985 was disinterred in August 2021 and transferred to the DPAA Laboratory at Offutt Air Force Base, Nebraska, for analysis.
To identify Smith’s remains, scientists from DPAA used dental and anthropological analysis, as well as circumstantial evidence. Additionally, scientists from the Armed Forces Medical Examiner System used mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) analysis.
Smith’s name is recorded on the Walls of the Missing at Epinal American Cemetery, an American Battle Monuments Commission site in Dinozé, France, along with others still missing from WWII. A rosette will be placed next to his name to indicate he has been accounted for.
Smith will be buried in San Antonio, Texas, on Nov 27, 2023.
For family and funeral information, contact the Army Casualty Office at (800) 892-2490.
For additional information on the Defense Department’s mission to account for Americans who went missing while serving our country, visit the DPAA website at www.dpaa.mil or find us on social media at www.facebook.com/dodpaa or https://www.linkedin.com/company/defense-pow-mia-accounting-agency.
Smith’s personnel profile can be viewed at https://dpaa-mil.sites.crmforce.mil/dpaaProfile?id=a0Jt0000000XfJNEA0.
From:
DPAA NCR OC Mailbox Public Affairs <dpaa.ncr.oc.mbx.public-affairs@mail.mil>
Sent: 9 November, 2023 13:14
Subject: DPAA News Release - Ohio Soldier Accounted for from
Korean War
Greetings,
CPL Herrington was accounted for in August, but his family only recently received their full briefing on his identification, which is why this release is going out now.
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The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Army Cpl. William J. Herrington, 19, of Alliance, Ohio, killed during the Korean War, was accounted for Aug. 26, 2022.
In late 1950, Herrington was a member of Dog Company, 1st Battalion, 32nd Infantry Regiment, 7th Infantry Division. He was reported missing in action on Dec. 2, while fighting a series of major battles with the Chinese People’s Volunteer Army (CPVA) on the eastern shore of the Chosin Reservoir, Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (D.P.R.K. or North Korea). When Herrington’s unit regrouped in Hangnam, he could not be located and was reported missing. There is no evidence that he was ever a prisoner of war. Herrington, absent any evidence of his continued survival, was declared nonrecoverable and the Army issued a presumptive finding of death on Dec. 31, 1953.
On July 27, 2018, following the summit between President Donald Trump and North Korean Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un in June 2018, North Korea turned over 55 boxes, purported to contain the remains of American service members killed during the Korean War. The remains arrived at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii on Aug. 1, 2018, and were subsequently accessioned into the DPAA laboratory for identification.
To identify Herrington’s remains, scientists from DPAA used dental, anthropological, and isotope analysis, as well as circumstantial evidence. Additionally, scientists from the Armed Forces Medical Examiner System used mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) analysis.
Herrington’s name is recorded on the American Battle Monuments Commission’s Courts of the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in Honolulu, along with the others who are still missing from the Korean War. A rosette will be placed next to his name to indicate he has been accounted for.
Herrington will be buried in Arlington National Cemetery, in July, 2024.
For family and funeral information, contact the Army Casualty Office at (800) 892-2490.
To see the most up-to-date statistics on DPAA recovery efforts for those unaccounted for from the Korean War, go to the Korean War Accounting page on the DPAA website at: https://dpaa-mil.sites.crmforce.mil/dpaaFamWebKorean.
For additional information on the Defense Department’s mission to account for Americans who went missing while serving our country, visit the DPAA website at www.dpaa.mil, or find us on social media at www.facebook.com/dodpaa or https://www.linkedin.com/company/defense-pow-mia-accounting-agency.
From:
DPAA NCR OC Mailbox Public Affairs <dpaa.ncr.oc.mbx.public-affairs@mail.mil>
Sent: 8 November, 2023 14:23
Subject: DPAA News Release - Rhode Island Airman
Accounted for from World War II
Greetings,
Pfc. McConnell was accounted for in July, but his family only recently received their full briefing on his identification, which is why this release is going out now.
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The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Army Air Force Pfc. Henry J. McConnell, 28, of Pawtucket, Rhode Island, who was captured and died as a prisoner of war during World War II, was accounted for July 27, 2023.
In early 1942, McConnell was assigned to the 2nd Observation Squadron in the Philippines, when Japanese forces invaded the Philippine Islands in December. Intense fighting continued until the surrender of the Bataan peninsula on April 9, 1942, and of Corregidor Island on May 6, 1942
Thousands of U.S. and Filipino service members were captured and interned at POW camps. McConnell was among those reported captured when U.S. forces in Bataan surrendered to the Japanese. They were subjected to the 65-mile Bataan Death March and then held at the Cabanatuan POW camp. More than 2,500 POWs perished in this camp during the war.
According to prison camp and other historical records, McConnell died July 26, 1942, and was buried along with other deceased prisoners in the local Cabanatuan Camp Cemetery in Common Grave 225.
Following the war, American Graves Registration Service (AGRS) personnel exhumed those buried at the Cabanatuan cemetery and relocated the remains to a temporary U.S. military mausoleum near Manila. In 1947, the AGRS examined the remains in an attempt to identify them. Three of the sets of remains from Common Grave 225 were identified, but the rest were declared unidentifiable. The unidentified remains were buried at the Manila American Cemetery and Memorial (MACM) as Unknowns.
In March 2018, the remains associated with Common Grave 225 were disinterred and sent to the DPAA laboratory for analysis.
To identify McConnell’s remains, scientists from DPAA used anthropological and dental analysis, as well as circumstantial evidence. Additionally, scientists from the Armed Forces Medical Examiner System used mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA), Y-chromosome (Y-STR), and autosomal DNA (auSTR) analysis.
Although interred as an Unknown in MACM, McConnell’s grave was meticulously cared for over the past 70 years by the American Battle Monuments Commission (ABMC).
McConnell will be buried in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, on November 30, 2023.
For family and funeral information, contact the Army Casualty Office at (800) 892-2490.
DPAA is grateful to the ABMC and the United States Army for their partnership in this mission.
For additional information on the Defense Department’s mission to account for Americans who went missing while serving our country, visit the DPAA website at www.dpaa.mil, find us on social media at www.facebook.com/dodpaa or https://www.linkedin.com/company/defense-pow-mia-accounting-agency.
Korean War soldier Cpl. Ray Kirby Lilly is coming home to West Virginia
For more than 70 years, Lilly’s family did not know where his remains were located, but they learned recently that he will be coming home to his final rest in Mercer County, W.Va.
From:
DPAA NCR OC Mailbox Public Affairs <dpaa.ncr.oc.mbx.public-affairs@mail.mil>
Sent: 7 November, 2023 16:06
Subject: DPAA News Release - Oklahoma Soldier Accounted for from
WWII
Greetings,
Cpl. Short was accounted for in June, but his family only recently received their full briefing on his identification, which is why this release is going out now.
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The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Army Cpl. R. V. Leo Short, 19, of Seminole, Oklahoma, killed during the Korean War, was accounted for June 22, 2023.
In November 1950, Short was a member of George Company, 2nd Battalion, 38th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Infantry Division, Eighth U.S. Army. He went missing in action after his unit was forced to retreat from Kunu-ri in the vicinity of Unbong-dong, North Korea. Due to intense fighting in the area, his body could not be recovered at that time. In 1953, several POWs returned during Operation Big Switch reported Short had been a prisoner of war and died in March, 1951, at Prisoner of War Camp #5.
In the fall of 1954, during Operation Glory, North Korea returned remains reportedly recovered from Pyoktong, also known as Prisoner of War Camp #5, to the United Nations Command. However, Short’s name did not appear on any of the transfer rosters and the Central Identification Unit in Kokura, Japan, did not associate any repatriated remains with him. Short was determined non-recoverable in January 1956.
In 2018, DPAA’s request to disinter 652 Korean War Unknowns—in seven phases—from the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific—also known as the Pounchbowl—in Honolulu, Hawaii, was approved. In September 2019, the DPAA disinterred Unknown X-14743, a set of remains returned during Operation Glory, as part of Phase Two of the Korean War Disinterment Plan and sent the remains to the DPAA laboratory for analysis
To identify Short’s remains, scientists from DPAA used dental and anthropological analysis, as well as chest radiograph comparison and circumstantial evidence. Additionally, scientists from the Armed Forces Medical Examiner System used mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) analysis.
Short’s name is recorded on the Courts of the Missing at the Punchbowl, along with the others who are still missing from the Korean War. A rosette will be placed next to his name to indicate he has been accounted for.
Short will be buried in Seminole, Oklahoma, on December 9, 2023.
For family and funeral information, contact the Army Casualty Office at (800) 892-2490.
To see the most up-to-date statistics on DPAA recovery efforts for those unaccounted for from the Korean War, go to the Korean War Accounting page on the DPAA website at: https://dpaa-mil.sites.crmforce.mil/dpaaFamWebKorean.
For additional information on the Defense Department’s mission to account for Americans who went missing while serving our country, visit the DPAA website at www.dpaa.mil, find us on social media at www.facebook.com/dodpaa or https://www.linkedin.com/company/defense-pow-mia-accounting-agency.
Short’s personnel profile can be viewed at https://dpaa-mil.sites.crmforce.mil/dpaaProfile?id=a0Jt00000004pj3EAA.
From: DPAA NCR OC
Mailbox Public Affairs <dpaa.ncr.oc.mbx.public-affairs@mail.mil>
Sent: 7 November, 2023 15:12
Subject: DPAA News Release - Nebraska Airman Accounted for from
WWII
Greetings,
Sgt. Goings Jr. was accounted for in June, but his family only recently received their full briefing on his identification, which is why this release is going out now.
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The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Army Air Force Sergeant White S. Goings Jr., 22, of Auburn, Nebraska, who was captured and died as a prisoner of war during World War II, was accounted for June 27, 2023.
In late 1942, Goings was a member of the 93rd Bombardment Squadron (Bomb Sq), 19th Bombardment Group (Bomb Gp), when Japanese forces invaded the Philippine Islands in December. Intense fighting continued until the surrender of the Bataan peninsula on April 9, 1942, and of Corregidor Island on May 6, 1942.
Thousands of U.S. and Filipino service members were captured and interned at POW camps. Goings was among those reported captured when U.S. forces in Bataan surrendered to the Japanese. They were subjected to the 65-mile Bataan Death March and then held at the Cabanatuan POW camp. More than 2,500 POWs perished in this camp during the war.
According to prison camp and other historical records, Goings died July 19, 1942, and was buried along with other deceased prisoners in the local Cabanatuan Camp Cemetery in Common Grave 312.
Following the war, American Graves Registration Service (AGRS) personnel exhumed those buried at the Cabanatuan cemetery and relocated the remains to a temporary U.S. military mausoleum near Manila. In 1947, the AGRS examined the remains in an attempt to identify them. Twenty-two sets of remains from Common Grave 312 were identified, but the rest were declared unidentifiable. The unidentified remains were buried at the Manila American Cemetery and Memorial (MACM) as Unknowns.
In early 2018, the remains associated with Common Grave 312 were disinterred and sent to the DPAA laboratory for analysis.
To identify Goings’s remains, scientists from DPAA used dental and anthropological analysis, as well as circumstantial evidence. Additionally, scientists from the Armed Forces Medical Examiner System used mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) and Y chromosome DNA (Y-STR) analysis.
Although interred as an Unknown in MACM, Goings’s grave was meticulously cared for over the past 70 years by the American Battle Monuments Commission (ABMC).
Goings will be buried in Auburn, Nebraska, in June, 2024.
For family and funeral information, contact the Army Casualty Office at (800) 892-2490.
DPAA is grateful to the ABMC and the United States Army for their partnership in this mission.
For additional information on the Defense Department’s mission to account for Americans who went missing while serving our country, visit the DPAA website at www.dpaa.mil, find us on social media at www.facebook.com/dodpaa or https://www.linkedin.com/company/defense-pow-mia-accounting-agency.
Goings’s personnel profile can be viewed at https://dpaa-mil.sites.crmforce.mil/dpaaProfile?id=a0Jt0000000LkpYEAS.
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WWII pilot to be buried in St.
Pete after 80 years MIA - WFLA
They were not linked to Myers. A Defense
POW/MIA Accounting Agency laboratory
analyzed additional remains that were discovered among
wreckage in 2021 ...
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Remains of World War II Soldier
to be buried in Milwaukee, Wisconsin - DVIDS
Gordon was accounted for by the
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World War II Soldier from
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Triplett's remains were
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Accounting Agency on October 25, 2022. They were recovered
from the crash site in ...
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Pittsburgh soldier killed
in World War II to be laid to rest in St. Petersburg - CBS News
Myers was co-piloting a B-25 Mitchell
during a bombing mission over Sicily when he was
hit, according to the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency.
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WW2 B-29 Flight Officer
Remains Recovered - ABC 10/CW5
Rink was accounted for by the defense
P.O.W./M.I.A. Accounting Agency on May
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material evidence ...
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Remains of Utah Airman Who Died
As Prisoner of War in WWII Finally Identified ... - The Messenger
It wasn't until 2018 that the
rest of the remains in the common grave were sent to the
Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency for
analysis. There ...
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Remains of World War II
Soldier to be buried in Fairview, Illinois - DVIDS
... POW/MIA Accounting
Agency for analysis. Hurt was accounted for by the
DPAA Aug. 21, 2023, after his remains were
identified using circumstantial ...
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Local airman found, returned
for burial | News, Sports, Jobs - The Mining Journal
According to the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency, in the summer of 1944, Rinke was assigned
to the 678th Bombardment Squadron, 444th Bombardment ...
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Remains of World War II
Soldier, Plymouth, Indiana, native, to be buried in Arlington
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... POW/MIA Accounting
Agency laboratory for analysis. Whipple was
accounted for by the DPAA Aug. 15, 2022, after his
remains were identified using ...
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Remains of World War II
Soldier, Spokane, Washington, native, to be buried in Arlington
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Triplett was accounted for by the
Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency Oct.
25, 2022, after his remains, which were recovered
from the crash site in ...
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Harlingen native killed in
WWII to be buried in Arlington National Cemetery - MyRGV.com
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency, or DPAA, identified Army Air
Forces 2nd Lt. Porter M. Pile's remains on Nov. 28,
2022, through ...
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81 years later, remains of
WWII airman from Utah identified | KSL.com
... POW/MIA Accounting
Agency. Intense fighting led to the surrender of the
Bataan peninsula April 19, 1942, and Corregidor
Island May 6, 1942. Sexton ...
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Remains of Winnetka native
and US Army soldier to be interred at Milwaukee cemetery
... POW/MIA Accounting
Agency. It was announced this week that his remains
will be interred at Wood National Cemetery on
Friday. headtopics.com. Ad.
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New POW-MIA museum
tells unforgettable stories - St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Years later, Puckett credited that
canteen with saving his life. A new POW-MIA museum
opens at Jefferson Barracks park. The canteen ...
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WWII airman identified over 80
years later as 23-year-old man from Salt Lake City | KUTV
Doyle W. Sexton was accounted for on July
13, according to an announcement from The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency on Friday. "In late 1942 ...
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After decades as an 'unknown,'
a WWII soldier from Utah identified - KSL NewsRadio
(Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency) ... “Scientists used dental and
anthropological analysis, as well as circumstantial
evidence,” the Defense POW/MIA ...
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Remains of Detroit soldier
killed in World War II to be interred Friday in Holly - WXYZ
... POW/MIA Accounting
Agency. Army Tech. Sgt. Leonard J. Dettloff. Posted
at 6:33 AM, Oct 27, 2023. and last updated 3:33 AM,
Oct 27, 2023. The remains ...
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Museum Of Wwii Remnants To
Be Opened Soon: Khandu | Guwahati News - Times of India
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency has also been involved in the
search for remains of US personnel missing since the
war. Museum of WWII ...
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Chico State set to host
20th edition of forensic anthropology conference
Speakers include Carrie Brown, a
Chico State alumna who now works at the Defense
POW/MIA Accounting Agency, describing her
work; and Jason ...
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Airman Accounted for from
WWII (Sexton, D.)
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S.
Army Air Force Pvt. Doyle W. Sexton, 23, of Salt
Lake City, Utah, ...
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Cheyenne East High to be
honored with POW/MIA stadium chair dedication -
Cap City News
CHEYENNE, Wyo. — A POW/MIA
stadium chair will be dedicated to East High's Okie
Blanchard Stadium on Friday, Oct. 27 at 5:30 p.m.,
prior to the 6 ...
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Remains of WWII soldier
from Plymouth to be buried in Arlington National Cemetery
In March of 2018, the unidentified
remains of common grave 225 were exhumed and taken
by the Defense POW/MIA Accounting
Agency laboratory for analysis ...
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Funeral Procession Route
Set For WWII Pilot Who Was MIA For 80 Years | Evergreen
Park, IL Patch
Riders will be carrying flags from
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flags. The hearse will be accompanied by a U.S. Army
military escort. Also ...
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Remains of World War II Soldier
to be buried in Fairview Heights, Illinois - KRDO
In 2018 the remains were
disinterred by the Defense POW/MIA Accounting
Agency for analysis. Hurt was accounted for by the DPAA
August 21, 2023 ...
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Mass. World War II soldier
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Remains of WWII soldier
returned to state for burial - The News-Enterprise
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency announced that Army Pfc. Henry C.
Wade, 24, of Decatur, was accounted for earlier this
year. His remains ...
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Museum Showcasing Artefacts
Of Hump Ops Of WWII To Be Inaugurated Soon ... - Outlook India
According to a US Embassy handout in
2017, investigators from the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA) returned to India that year
to continue the ...
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After 81 years and a DNA match,
an East St. Louis soldier has finally come home
... POW camp and relocated them
to a U.S. military mausoleum near Manila, the Defense POW/MIA
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Missing World War II
soldier to be buried in Russell Springs next month - Laker
Country
Years of work by the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency led to the identification of Wade.
Wade, who was from the Decatur community, will be
laid ...
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Body of East St. Louis IL World
War II soldier returned - Belleville News-Democrat
... POW camp and relocated them
to a U.S. military mausoleum near Manila, the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency said. In 1947, Hurt's body and other ...
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Remains of U.S. World War II
soldier to be buried in Milwaukee - TMJ4
Gordon was accounted for by the
Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency on July 13,
2022. Harter Funeral Home in Brookfield will perform
graveside ...
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Governor recognizes
sacrifice of WWII soldier to be buried in Kentucky after remains
accounted for
As the Sun reported Tuesday, the
Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency
announced that U.S. Army Pvt. 1st Class Henry C.
Wade, 24, of Decatur, Kentucky ...
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Remains of World War II
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Missing WWII soldier
killed in Germany accounted for, to be buried in Kentucky
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced Monday that
U.S. Army Pvt. 1st Class Henry C. Wade, 24, of
Decatur, Kentucky — who was ...
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Remains of US Army soldier
killed during WWII to be buried in Milwaukee - CBS 58
Gordon was accounted for by the
Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency in July of
last year. Gordon will be interred Oct. 27 at Wood National
Cemetery ...
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Remains of Korean War
veteran escorted to Broken Bow - KXII
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Soldier Accounted for from WWII
(Rudd, R.)
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Army Army
Staff Sgt. Robert G, Rudd, 34, of Gatesville, Texas, ...
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Soldier Accounted for from
WWII (Wade, H.)
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S.
Army Pvt. 1st Class Henry C. Wade, 24, of Decatur,
Kentucky, killed during ...
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From:
DPAA NCR OC Mailbox Public Affairs <dpaa.ncr.oc.mbx.public-affairs@mail.mil>
Sent: 23 October, 2023 10:24
Subject: DPAA News Release - Texas Soldier Accounted for from
World War II
Greetings,
SSG Rudd was accounted for in June, but his family only recently received their full briefing on his identification, which is why this release is going out now.
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The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Army Army Staff Sgt. Robert G, Rudd, 34, of Gatesville, Texas, killed during World War II, was accounted for June 20, 2022.
In the early fall of 1944, Rudd was assigned to Company C, 38th Infantry Regiment, 2D Infantry Division. On Jan. 30, Rudd was killed during the Battle of the Bulge when his company attacked heavily fortified enemy forces near the town of Rocherath, Belgium. Due to intense fighting and fierce artillery shelling, Rudd’s body was unrecoverable and the War Department a Report of Death on Feb. 20, 1945.
In 2017, after reviewing information provided by Belgian and American researchers, DPAA historians analyzed evidence related to several sets of remains initially recovered by Belgian locals in the Elsenbuchel Forest that had been interred at what is now the Ardennes American Cemetery in 1949, including unknown remains X-3144 Neuville. Following an interdisciplinary analysis by DPAA historical and scientific staff, the X-3144 remains were disinterred from Ardennes American Cemetery in 2021 for comparison with a list of candidates including Rudd.
To identify Rudd’s remains, scientists from DPAA used anthropological analysis and dental records. Additionally, scientists from the Armed Forces Medical Examiner System used mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA), Y chromosome DNA (Y-STR), and autosomal DNA (auSTR) analysis.
Rudd’s name is recorded on the Walls of the Missing at the Netherlands American Cemetery, an American Battle Monuments Commission site in Margraten, Netherlands, along with others still missing from WWII. A rosette will be placed next to his name to indicate he has been accounted for.
Rudd will be buried in Belton, Texas, on a date to be determined.
For family and funeral information, contact the Army Casualty Office at (800) 892-2490.
DPAA published a story in June 2021 about Rudd’s recent recovery effort, which can be read here: https://www.dpaa.mil/News-Stories/Recent-News-Stories/Article/2648849/dpaa-completes-recovery-operations-in-belgium/.
For additional information on the Defense Department’s mission to account for Americans who went missing while serving our country, visit the DPAA website at www.dpaa.mil or find us on social media at www.facebook.com/dodpaa or https://www.linkedin.com/company/defense-pow-mia-accounting-agency.
Rudd’s personnel profile can be viewed at https://dpaa-mil.sites.crmforce.mil/dpaaProfile?id=a0Jt000001nzPbVEAU
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Remains of Fallen WWII Soldier
Identified Nearly 80 Years After His Death - Head Topics
The government's Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency, which recovers American military personnel
listed as prisoners of war or missing in action ...
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WWII Airman from Newton to be
laid to rest 80 years after his plane was shot down
... POW/MIA Accounting
Agency. The remains of a decorated World War II soldier
from Newton, who died after being shot down over Romania
80 years ago ...
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Travis King, the Army private
who fled to North Korea, is charged with desertion
Tagged as: National · A Vietnam
veteran helicopter pilot receives the Medal of Honor
for a daring rescue. Capt. Larry Taylor received the award
from ...
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Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency Identified and Returned Sergeant ... - Texas
Border Business
WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Congressman
Henry Cuellar, Ph.D. (TX-28) commended the Defense
POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) for
identifying and returning ...
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Korean War POW
soldier buried in Omaha 72 years after his death - The Grand
Island Independent
They were disinterred in 2019 as part of
a project by the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA) to exhume and identify 652 sets
of “unknown” ...
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https://www.stripes.com/history/2023-10-17/wwii-marine-buried-punchbowl-11736185.html?utm_source=Stars+and+Stripes+Emails&utm_campaign=78d6717c43-Newsletter+-+Veterans+news&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_0ab8697a7f-78d6717c43-296875491 WWII Marine and hero laid to rest at Punchbowl 80 years after his death Nearly 80 years after Marine Sgt. Arthur Ervin died fighting on Saipan, he was laid to rest Monday in a ceremony at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific at Punchbowl. |
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Pacific teamwork seeks to
bring heroes home - DVIDS
In March of 2015, we renamed the
Kingfisher Project to the Kwajalein MIA Project to
reflect the expanded scope,” said Farnham. ... Defense
POW/MIA ...
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The Return of TSgt Turner
Yearwood Johnston, Former MIA | Obituaries | tdtnews.com
In 2017, the Defense POW/MIA
accounting Agency, keeping with fulfilling our nation's
promise to account for all our MIA's and POW's, had
the ...
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| October 18, 2023 | |
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Funeral held for Omaha native,
U.S. Army veteran who died as Korean War prisoner
Earlier this year, the ...
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Korean War POW
soldier buried in Omaha 72 years after his death
The were disinterred in 2019 as part
of a project by the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA) to exhume and identify 652
sets of “unknown” remains ...
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Central Michigan Life -
'Everyone deserves to return home'
Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency's Jennie Jin visits CMU ...
Central Michigan University students in three
courses in the Philosophy, Anthropology and ...
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WWII Marine and hero laid to
rest at Punchbowl 80 years after his death | Honolulu
Star-Advertiser
Ervin was awarded the Navy
Cross at Camp Maui for his actions during a battle on
Feb. 1, 1944. JAMM AQUINO /
JAQUINO@STARADVERTISER.COM Marine Sgt.
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'Coming Home' | Tri City
Times
In a recent press release, the
Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA)
announced U.S. Army Cpl. Lewis W, Hill, 18, of
Detroit, Michigan, killed ...
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| October 17, 2023 | |
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Rhode Island soldier buried at
Arlington National Cemetery decades after Korean War death
The Defense POW/MIA
Account Agency identified Robidoux on Jan 23, 2023, using
dental and anthropological analysis along with DNA analysis
conducted by ...
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Massachusetts soldier
killed in WWII combat to be buried in Bourne - WWLP
In 2017, the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency began exhuming the bodies to
identify them through the use of anthropological and
mitochondrial DNA ...
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Massachusetts Navy veteran gets military funeral more than a century after his death
Joseph Eaton, born in Alabama in 1847, joined the U.S. Naval Academy in September 1863, in the midst of the Civil War. Eaton’s 40-year military career sent him around the world on a variety of naval assignments.
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Soldier Accounted for from WWII
(Gerdes, W.)
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Army
Staff Sgt. Woodrow F. Gerdes, 31, of St. Louis,
Missouri, ...
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| October 13, 2023 |
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Body of Texas WWII veteran
identified, to be buried in Belton - KCEN-TV
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency said the body of U.S. Army Air
Forces Tech. Sgt. Turner Y. Johnston will be buried
at the North Belton ...
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Veterans protest policy in
Conn. town that bars POW/MIA flag from flying on its
property
HARTFORD, Conn. — Former U.S.
Marine Matthew Bowman gets choked up when he thinks about
how his fellow Marines were treated when they returned ...
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Remains of WWII Veteran
from Michigan return home nearly 80 years later - FOX 2 Detroit
While fighting against Germany, U.S.
Army Staff Sgt. Max Thurston was killed in action in
November 1944, according to the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting ...
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Black Knights welcome back
WWII Airman during interment ceremony
... POW/MIA Accounting
Agency, July 7, 2023. (Courtesy photo). PHOTO BY:
Senior Airman Maria Umanzor Guzman. VIRIN:
230930-F-XXXXX-1002. FULL SIZE: 0.61 ...
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| October 11, 2023 | |
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World War II soldier killed
in action in 1944 is laid to rest in Calverton with full
military honors
... POW/MIA Accounting
Agency. Sweeney was accounted for on June 14, 2021
after a historian at the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency determined that ...
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Suffolk County unites to
honor Sgt. Bernard J. Sweeney Jr.'s sacrifice - FOX 5 New York
But a historian, from the Defense
POW/MIA Accounting Agency believed the
remains recovered from a minefield could be
Sweeney's. By 2019, the ...
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| October 10, 2023 | |
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10 things to know for Korean
War POW remains returning to Laredo
The DPAA profile on Garcia says
he was a member of Headquarters Company, 9th Infantry
Regiment, 2nd Infantry Division. He was reported MIA
on Dec. 1, ...
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Remains of Nebraska soldier
killed in Korean War to be buried in Omaha - KLKN-TV
Dorrance was eventually accounted for
by the Defense POW/MIA Accounting
Agency on May 22, 2023. More information on Dorrance
can be found on the ...
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We never leave anybody behind:'
Vietnam veteran's remains returned to Waynesville
When I was growing up and even
in early adulthood, World War II veterans were the elder… A
joint forensic review conducted with the Defense POW/MIA ...
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WNC man who died more than
50 years ago in Vietnam returns home
According to the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency, Hall died when the F-4D Phantom
II he was the navigator for crashed into a mountain
ridge in April ...
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| October 9, 2023 |
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Laredo family prepares for
POW's posthumous return 73 years later
After more than 70 years accounted
for as a POW in the Korean War, Prisoner of War
POW/MIA Sergeant Cresenciano Garcia will
be returning home at last ...
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| October 8, 2023 |
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After missing in action in
the Vietnam War for 54 years, a soldier's remains return to NC
Captain Hall went missing in action
while serving in the Vietnam War over half a century
ago. On March 23, 2023, the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency ...
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| October 7, 2023 |
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USS California sailor
accounted for from WWII - The Highland County Press
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced Oct. 2 that Navy
Seaman 2nd Class Stanley C. Galaszewski, 29, of
Steubenville, ...
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From: DPAA NCR OC Mailbox Public Affairs <dpaa.ncr.oc.mbx.public-affairs@mail.mil>
Sent: 16 October, 2023 11:36
Subject: DPAA News Release - Missouri Soldier Accounted for from
World War II
Greetings,
SSG Gerdes was accounted for in July, but his family only recently received their full briefing on his identification, which is why this release is going out now.
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The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Woodrow F. Gerdes, 31, of St. Louis, Missouri, killed during World War II, was accounted for July 25, 2023.
In November 1944, Gerdes was assigned to Company K, 3rd Battalion, 110th Infantry Regiment, 28th Infantry Division. His battalion had been tasked with advancing on the enemy within the Raffelsbrand, near the town of Germeter, Germany, in the Hürtgen Forest. During intense fighting and heavy artillery fire, Gerdes was reported missing in action on Nov. 9. German forces never reported him as a prisoner of war, nor did U.S. Army officials learn any details of his fate. With no evidence that he survived the fighting, Army officials eventually determined he was killed in action.
Following the end of the war, the American Graves Registration Command was tasked with investigating and recovering missing American personnel in Europe. They conducted several investigations in the Hürtgen area between 1946 and 1950, but were unable to account for Gerdes’s remains. He was declared non-recoverable in November 1951.
While studying unresolved American losses in the Hürtgen area, a DPAA historian determined that one set of unidentified remains, designated X-4507 Neuville, recovered from a foxhole near Raffelsbrand in April 1947, possibly belonged to Gerdes. The remains, which had been buried in Ardennes American Cemetery, an American Battle Monuments Commission site in Neuville-en-Condroz, Belgium, in 1949, were disinterred in June 2018 and sent to the DPAA laboratory for identification.
To identify Gerdes’s remains, scientists from DPAA used anthropological analysis, as well as circumstantial evidence. Additionally, scientists from the Armed Forces Medical Examiner System used Y-chromosome DNA (Y-STR), and autosomal DNA (auSTR) analysis.
Gerdes’s name is recorded on the Tablets of the Missing at Netherlands American Cemetery, an American Battle Monuments Commission site in Margraten, Netherlands, along with the others still missing from World War II. A rosette will be placed next to his name to indicate he has been accounted for.
Gerdes will be buried in St. Louis, Missouri, on a date to be determined.
For family and funeral information, contact the Army Casualty Office at (800) 892-2490.
DPAA is grateful to the American Battle Monuments Commission and to the U.S. Army Regional Mortuary-Europe/Africa for their partnership in this mission.
For additional information on the Defense Department’s mission to account for Americans who went missing while serving our country, visit the DPAA website at www.dpaa.mil, find us on social media at www.facebook.com/dodpaa or https://www.linkedin.com/company/defense-pow-mia-accounting-agency.
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Laredo Soldier identified,
accounted for from Korean War - KGNS
The City of Laredo will ...
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NC DMVA Welcomes Captain Hall
Home Vietnam War MIA Airman's, remains recovered ...
Over 50 years after declared missing, on
March 23, 2023, the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA) identified the remains of
Captain Hall ...
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How the Claymore Mine changed
the battlefield forever - Task & Purpose
Rick Woolard (Ret) is the
Chairman of the Navy SEAL Museum Board of ... SEAL
Team 6, and the Naval Special Warfare Development Group.
Woolard had ...
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Waynesville proclaims 'Fred
Hall Week' - Smoky Mountain News
... POW/MIA
Accounting Agency. Language in the proclamation is nearly
identical to that of a similar resolution declaring Oct.
11-18, 1974, as Fred ...
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Ohio Sailor's Remains from
Pearl Harbor Attack Finally Identified - DisabledVeterans.org
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency has officially announced that Navy
Seaman 2nd Class Stanley C. Galaszewski, a native of
Steubenville, Ohio ...
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Remains of Ohio sailor
killed during Pearl Harbor attack identified over 80 years later
Galaszewski, originally from
Steubenville, Ohio, was killed on December 7, 1941,
along with over 100 crewmates, said the Defense
POW/MIA Accounting ...
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Pvt. Wing Hom's WWII story
comes full circle - Northwest Asian Weekly
These remains were exhumed in 2021
and sent for analysis. The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA) recently announced that
those remains were that ...
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| October 5, 2023 |
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Remains of local WWII
seaman identified | News, Sports, Jobs - The Times Leader
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency said Monday that Navy Seaman 2nd
Class Stanley C. Galaszewski, 29, of Steubenville
was one of 104 crewmen on ...
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| October 4, 2023 |
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Remains of Ohio Sailor
Identified 80 Years After Pearl Harbor Attack, Officials Say -
People
... POW/MIA Accounting
Agency said in a news release. The moored ship was
attacked by a Japanese aircraft and sustained
multiple torpedo and bomb hits ...
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Wisconsin soldier from Korean
War accounted for - CBS 58
(CBS 58) -- The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency has confirmed the identification of U.S.
Army Pvt. 1st Class Charles A. Dickman, 17, of Cashton ...
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B-29 Superfortress flight
officer accounted for from World War II - Audacy
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced recently that U.S. Army
Air Forces Flight Officer Chester L. Rinke, 33, of
Marquette, ...
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Waiting for Uncle Frank -
Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency
The giant black and white photographs
of smiling young men flashed on the screens. Name,
rank and branch of military service are listed
below ...
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Remains Of US Navy Sailor
Killed In The Pearl Harbor Attack Identified After 80+ Years
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (abbreviated the DPAA) revealed in
a news on Monday that Stanley C. Galaszewski, 29,
the Navy Seaman 2nd ...
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Remains of Ohio man killed
during Pearl Harbor identified - WOUB
Explosion of the USS Shaw's forward
magazine during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor,
Dec. 7, 1941. [shutterstock.com] The Defense POW/MIA ...
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Remains of Pearl Harbor
sailor from Steubenville identified, burial set for November |
WTTE
The remains of a sailor from
Steubenville killed on Dec., 7 1941 have been
identified. (Logo: Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency website). Facebook ...
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Remains of local sailor
killed at Pearl Harbor in 1941 identified - WTRF
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced Tuesday that Navy
Seaman 2nd Class Stanley C. Galaszewski, 29, of
Steubenville, Ohio, ...
Remains of Ohio
sailor killed in Pearl Harbor attack identified |
Sandhills Express
Galaszewski, 29, originally
from Steubenville, Ohio, was killed on Dec.
7, 1941, along with over 100 crewmates, the
Defense POW/MIA Accounting
Agency ...
Remains
of Pearl Harbor sailor from Steubenville
identified, burial set for November | WTOV
(Logo: Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency website). ... His
remains were among 25 from the
California that remained
unidentified until an effort
that ...
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| October 3, 2023 | |
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Soldier Accounted for from
Korean War (Dickman, C.)
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Army Pvt.
1st Class Charles A. Dickman, 17, of Cashton, Wisconsin, ...
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William Memorial
participates in ceremony burying recovered remains of WWll
veteran
In 2014, the Joint POW/MIA
Accounting Command, a predecessor to the now Defense
POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA),
searched Sapekhati, which led to ...
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US soldier from Cashton
missing in action during Korean War accounted for - La Crosse
Tribune
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency announced Monday that U.S. Army
Pvt. 1st Class Charles A. Dickman, 17, of Cashton,
killed during the Korean ...
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Remains of Ohio sailor killed
during Pearl Harbor attack identified over 80 years later
7, 1941, along with over 100 crewmates, the
Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) said
in a news release on Monday. His remains were finally ...
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| October 3, 2023 | |
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Wisconsin soldier identified,
accounted for from Korean War - WMTV
(Defense POW/MIA ...
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Remains Of Pittsburgh Army
Pilot Killed In World War 2 Identified - Patch
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency announced Monday today that the
remains of U.S. Army Air Forces 2nd Lt. Gilbert H.
Myers were accounted for ...
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Army Still Undecided on Whether to Punish Pvt. Travis King, But Potential Charges Loom
Whether Pvt. Travis King will face Army punishment for fleeing into North Korea in July remains an open question days after he returned to U.S. soil on Sept. 28.
The Army said Tuesday that it still had not decided how to handle the case of the 23-year-old soldier as he continued the reintegration process at a Texas base. Service officials said it's still too soon to decide whether he will be punished or charged for any crime under the Uniform Code of Military Justice...
From: DPAA NCR OC Mailbox Public Affairs <dpaa.ncr.oc.mbx.public-affairs@mail.mil>
Sent: 2 October, 2023 14:28
Subject: DPAA News Release - Wisconsin Soldier Accounted for from
Korean War
Greetings,
PFC Dickman was accounted for in June, but his family only recently received their full briefing on his identification, which is why this release is going out now.
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The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Army Pvt. 1st Class Charles A. Dickman, 17, of Cashton, Wisconsin, killed during the Korean War, was accounted for June 20, 2023.
In July 1950, Dickman was a member of Mike Company, 21st Infantry Regiment, 24th Infantry Division. He went missing in action after his unit engaged in defensive actions north of Chochiwon, South Korea, on July 12. Due to intense fighting, his body could not be recovered at that time, and there was never any evidence that he was a prisoner of war. The Army issued a presumptive finding of death on Dec. 13, 1953.
After regaining control of Chochiwon in the fall of 1950, the Army began recovering remains from the area and temporarily interring them at the United Nations Military Cemetery (UNMC) Taejon. One set of remains recovered during this period was designated Unknown X-146 Taejon, recovered in the vicinity of the Kum River, South Korea. A tentative association was made between X-146 and Dickman, but definitive proof could not be found, and X-146 was determined to be unidentifiable. The remains were sent to Hawaii where they were buried at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, known as the Punchbowl, in Honolulu.
In July 2018, the DPAA proposed a plan to disinter 652 Korean War Unknowns from the Punchbowl. On July 15, 2019, DPAA disinterred Unknown X-146 Taejon as part of Phase Two of the Korean War Disinterment Project and sent the remains to the DPAA laboratory, for analysis.
To identify Dickman’s remains, scientists from DPAA used dental and anthropological analysis, as well as chest radiograph comparison and circumstantial evidence. Additionally, scientists from the Armed Forces Medical Examiner System used mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) analysis.
Dickman’s name is recorded on the Courts of the Missing at the Punchbowl, along with the others who are still missing from the Korean War. A rosette will be placed next to his name to indicate he has been accounted for.
Dickman will be buried in Cashton, Wisconsin, on Oct. 21, 2023.
For family and funeral information, contact the Army Casualty Office at (800) 892-2490.
To see the most up-to-date statistics on DPAA recovery efforts for those unaccounted for from the Korean War, go to the Korean War Accounting page on the DPAA website at: https://dpaa-mil.sites.crmforce.mil/dpaaFamWebKorean.
For additional information on the Defense Department’s mission to account for Americans who went missing while serving our country, visit the DPAA website at www.dpaa.mil, find us on social media at www.facebook.com/dodpaa or https://www.linkedin.com/company/defense-pow-mia-accounting-agency.
Dickman’s personnel profile can be viewed at https://dpaa-mil.sites.crmforce.mil/dpaaProfile?id=a0Jt0000008GTHHEA4 .
From:
DPAA NCR OC Mailbox Public Affairs <dpaa.ncr.oc.mbx.public-affairs@mail.mil>
Sent: 2 October, 2023 13:24
Subject: DPAA News Release - USS California Sailor from Ohio
Accounted for from WWII
Greetings,
S2c Galaszewski was accounted for in May, 2022, but his family only recently received their full briefing on his identification, which is why this release is going out now.
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The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that Navy Seaman 2nd Class Stanley C. Galaszewski, 29, of Steubenville, Ohio, killed during World War II, was accounted for on May 23, 2022.
On Dec. 7, 1941, Galaszewski was assigned to the battleship USS California, which was moored at Ford Island, Pearl Harbor, when the ship was attacked by Japanese aircraft. The USS California sustained multiple torpedo and bomb hits, which caused it catch fire and slowly flood. The attack on the ship resulted in the deaths of 104 crewmen, including Galaszewski.
From December 1941 to April 1942, Navy personnel recovered the remains of the deceased crew, which were subsequently interred in the Halawa and Nu’uanu Cemeteries.
In September 1947, tasked with recovering and identifying fallen U.S. personnel in the Pacific Theater, members of the American Graves Registration Service (AGRS) disinterred the remains of U.S. casualties from the two cemeteries and transferred them to the Central Identification Laboratory at Schofield Barracks. The laboratory staff was only able to confirm the identifications of 39 men from the USS California at that time. The AGRS subsequently buried the unidentified remains at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific (NMCP), known as the Punchbowl, in Honolulu. In October 1949, a military board classified the 25 Unknowns who could not be identified as non-recoverable, including Galaszewski.
In 2018, DPAA personnel exhumed the 25 USS California Unknowns from the Punchbowl for analysis.
To identify Galaszewski’s remains, scientists from DPAA used anthropological analysis. Additionally, scientists from the Armed Forces Medical Examiner System used mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA), Y chromosome DNA (Y-STR), and autosomal DNA (auSTR) analysis.
Galaszewski’s name is recorded on the Walls of the Missing at the Punchbowl, along with the others who are missing from WWII. A rosette will be placed next to his name to indicate he has been accounted for.
Galaszewski will be buried on Nov. 3, 2023, in Steubenville, Ohio.
For family and funeral information, contact the Navy Service Casualty office at (800) 443-9298.
DPAA is grateful to the Department of Veterans Affairs and the Department of the Navy for their partnership in this mission.
For additional information on the Defense Department’s mission to account for Americans who went missing while serving our country, visit the DPAA website at www.dpaa.mil or find us on social media at www.facebook.com/dodpaa or https://www.linkedin.com/company/defense-pow-mia-accounting-agency.
Galaszewski’s personnel profile can be viewed at https://dpaa-mil.sites.crmforce.mil/dpaaProfile?id=a0Jt00000004nB9EAI
From: DPAA NCR OC Mailbox Public Affairs <dpaa.ncr.oc.mbx.public-affairs@mail.mil>
Sent: 2 October, 2023 11:40
Subject: DPAA News Release - Pennsylvania Pilot Accounted for
from WWII
Greetings,
2LT Myers was accounted for in August, but his family only recently received their full briefing on his identification, which is why this release is going out now.
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The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Army Air Forces 2nd Lt. Gilbert H. Myers, 27, of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, killed during World War II, was accounted for Aug. 10, 2023.
In the summer of 1943, Myers was assigned to the 381st Bombardment Squadron, 310th Bombardment Group, in the Mediterranean Theater. On July 10, while serving as a co-pilot of a B-25 Mitchell, Myers’ aircraft was hit by anti-aircraft fire while conducting a bombing mission over Sicily. Myers’s remains were not recovered, and he was subsequently declared missing in action.
In late 1944, American Graves Registration Service (AGRS) researchers discovered that Italian residents of Sciacca, found a body belonging to the B-25 pilot at a crash site. AGRS investigators at the time indicated that they found some remains of the wreckage, but did not locate any additional losses. Later in 1947, investigators conducted search and recovery operations near Sciacca, but were unable to locate anything linking back to Myers.
In 2021 and 2022, DPAA and partner organization personnel from the Cranfield University Recovery and Identification of Conflict Team returned to Sciacca. There they were able to recover additional plane wreckage pieces, as well as human remains from the crash site. These remains were sent to the DPAA Laboratory for examination and identification.
To identify Myers’s remains, scientists from DPAA used anthropological analysis, as well as circumstantial evidence. Additionally, scientists from the Armed Forces Medical Examiner System used mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA), Y-chromosome DNA (Y-STR), and autosomal DNA (auSTR) analysis.
Myers’s name is recorded on the Walls of the Missing at Sicily-Rome American Cemetery, an ABMC site in Nettuno, Italy, along with others still missing from WWII. A rosette will be placed next to his name to indicate he has been accounted for.
For family and funeral information, contact the Army Casualty Office at (800) 892-2490.
Myers will be buried on Nov 10, 2023, in St. Petersburg, Florida.
DPAA is grateful to the American Battle Monuments Commission and to the U.S. Army Regional Mortuary-Europe/Africa for their partnership in this mission. DPAA is grateful to the authorities of Sciacca and Agrigento, Italy for their support, including Dr. Domenica Gullì, of the Soprintendenza per i Beni Culturali e Ambientali di Agrigento, and the Comando Compagnia Carabinieri Sciacca. Additionally, DPAA is appreciative of Dr. Nicola Virgilio for sharing his research regarding the Aeroporto Fantasma, which continues to assist investigation and recovery efforts in southwest Sicily.
For additional information on the Defense Department’s mission to account for Americans who went missing while serving our country, visit the DPAA website at www.dpaa.mil or find us on social media at www.facebook.com/dodpaa or https://www.linkedin.com/company/defense-pow-mia-accounting-agency.
Myers’s personnel profile can be viewed at https://dpaa-mil.sites.crmforce.mil/dpaaProfile?id=a0Jt000000RlYRHEA3.
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Remains of Pittsburgh WWII
pilot missing in action since 1943 identified - CBS News
... POW/MIA Accounting
Agency said. His remains weren't recovered, and he was
declared missing in action. In 1994, American Graves
Registration ...
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WWII Ohio Sailor Accounted for
Will Be Returned Home and Buried Next Month - Scioto Post
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that Navy
Seaman 2nd Class Stanley C. Galaszewski, 29,
of Steubenville, Ohio, killed ...
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| October 2, 2023 | |
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Remains of Ohio WWII seaman
killed during Pearl Harbor attack identified - AP News
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency said Monday that Navy Seaman 2nd Class
Stanley C. Galaszewski, 29, of Steubenville, Ohio, was one
of 104 ...
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Pilot Accounted for from
WWII (Myers, G.)
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S.
Army Air Forces 2nd Lt. Gilbert H. Myers, 27, of
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, ...
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Remains of Ohio WWII seaman
killed during Pearl Harbor attack identified - 13ABC
The Defense POW/MIA ...
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'We got him home': Edmonson
County holds funeral for WWII POW 81 years after death
He was never returned to
Kentucky for a proper burial, a process that kicked into
high gear in June when the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency finally ...
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WWII Pennsylvania pilot
accounted for 80 years after bomber shot down over Italy - WTAJ
Image provided by the Defense
POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA). U.S. Army Air
Forces 2nd Lieutenant Gilbert H. Myers, 27, of Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania.
Remains of Pittsburgh
man killed while serving in World War II recovered - WPXI
According to the Defense
POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA), 2nd
Lt. Gilbert H. Myers, 27 was declared missing in
action in 1943 after the B-25 he ...
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Western Wisconsin soldier
killed during Korean War accounted for 70 years later
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- A western
Wisconsin man who was killed during the Korean War
was accounted for on June 20, the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting ...
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World War II bomber pilot
from Pittsburgh identified after 80 years
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA) identified the remains of
Second Lieutenant Gilbert Haldeen Myers, a World War
II soldier from ...
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Private killed in World War
II finally laid to rest this summer at Arlington National
Cemetery.
ELIZABETHTON — The words at the base
of the National League of Families POW/MIA
Flag reads: “You are not forgotten”. The family of
PFC Mark Paul ...
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Private killed in World War
II finally laid to rest this summer at Arlington National
Cemetery.
ELIZABETHTON — The words at the base
of the National League of Families POW/MIA
flag reads: “You are not forgotten.” The family of
Pfc. Mark Paul ...
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| October 1, 2023 | |
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Pentagon promises to keep
looking for POW/MIAs who never returned home -
njtoday.net
During an event at the Pentagon to
commemorate National POW/MIA
Recognition Day, honoring prisoners of war and those
still missing in action, Deputy ...
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Crapo Receives Update on
Status of MIA Servicemember from Filer - Dailyfly
Washington, D.C.–U.S. Senator Mike
Crapo (R-Idaho) received news from the Defense
POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) that it
had made progress on ...
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Central Coast airman killed
during WWII returned home, buried after 81 years - KSBY
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency led the way in identifying Pfc.
Harris. At the time of his death, he left behind
four brothers, Clifford ...
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American World War 2
veteran's remains finally identified - The Jerusalem Post
The United States POW/MIA
Accounting Agency announced early last month that
the remains of Army Sgt. Bernard J. Sweeney from
Connecticut had been ...
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Edmonson County WWII POW
Laid to Rest Near His Childhood Home | WCLU Radio
In 2014, family members
submitted DNA samples to officials of the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency in hopes that his remains could be
identified.
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Vance celebrates the Air
Force's 76th birthday with dinner, dancing and the 19th Air
Force ...
POW/MIA
ceremony. Remembering those unable to attend. The
Prisoner of War/ Missing in Action ceremony was
presented by Silver Talon Honor Guard ...
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Recent Discovery Might
Finally Bring Home World War II Pilot From Idaho
WASHINGTON, D.C. - According to a
release from Idaho U.S. Senator Mike Crapo's office
this week, the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency says it had ...
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American Soldier Who Crossed into North Korea Arrives Back in the US, Video Appears to Show
From:
DPAA NCR OC Mailbox Public Affairs <dpaa.ncr.oc.mbx.public-affairs@mail.mil>
Sent: 27 September, 2023 14:31
Subject: DPAA News Release - Illinois Soldier Accounted for from
WWII
Greetings,
U.S. Army Corporal James Hurt was accounted for in August, but his family only recently received their full briefing on his identification, which is why this release is going out now.
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The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Army Cpl. James A. Hurt, 25, of East St. Louis, Illinois, who was captured and died as a prisoner of war during World War II, was accounted for Aug. 21, 2023.
In 1942, Hurt was a member of the 17th Pursuit Squadron, 24th Pursuit Group, U.S. Army Air Forces, when Japanese forces invaded the Philippine Islands in December. Intense fighting continued until the surrender of the Bataan peninsula on April 9, 1942, and of Corregidor Island on May 6, 1942.
Thousands of U.S. and Filipino service members were captured and interned at POW camps. Hurt was among those reported captured when U.S. forces in Bataan surrendered to the Japanese. They were subjected to the 65-mile Bataan Death March and then held at the Cabanatuan POW camp. More than 2,500 POWs perished in this camp during the war.
According to prison camp and other historical records, Hurt died July 19, 1942, and was buried along with other deceased prisoners in the local Cabanatuan Camp Cemetery in Common Grave 312.
Following the war, American Graves Registration Service (AGRS) personnel exhumed those buried at the Cabanatuan cemetery and relocated the remains to a temporary U.S. military mausoleum near Manila. In 1947, the AGRS examined the remains in an attempt to identify them. Twelve sets of remains from Common Grave 312 were identified, but the rest were declared unidentifiable. The unidentified remains were buried at the Manila American Cemetery and Memorial (MACM) as Unknowns.
In early 2018, the remains associated with Common Grave 312 were disinterred and sent to the DPAA laboratory for analysis.
To identify Hurt’s remains, scientists from DPAA used dental and anthropological analysis, as well as circumstantial evidence. Additionally, scientists from the Armed Forces Medical Examiner System used mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) analysis.
Although interred as an Unknown in MACM, Hurt’s grave was meticulously cared for over the past 70 years by the American Battle Monuments Commission (ABMC).
Hurt will be buried on October 28, 2023, in Fairview, Illinois.
For family and funeral information, contact the Army Casualty Office at (800) 892-2490.
DPAA is grateful to the ABMC and the United States Army for their partnership in this mission.
For additional information on the Defense Department’s mission to account for Americans who went missing while serving our country, visit the DPAA website at www.dpaa.mil, find us on social media at www.facebook.com/dodpaa or https://www.linkedin.com/company/defense-pow-mia-accounting-agency.
Hurt’s personnel profile can be viewed at https://dpaa-mil.sites.crmforce.mil/dpaaProfile?id=a0Jt0000000XeSOEA0.
From: Kenneth Breaux
<ckbreaux43@gmail.com>
Sent: 25 September, 2023 12:55
To: Kenneth Breaux <kenneth.breaux@sbcglobal.net>
Subject: missing Tuskegee airman found
THE LEADERSHIP LETTER©
Narratives on the Art of Leadership
Reprinting for personal use or republication of this article is authorized provided the content and format is
unaltered and attribution is given by the following sentence.”This article is reprinted with permission of
Charles Kenneth Breaux” Kenneth.breaux@sbcglobal.net
25 September 2023
In Memory of Those Who Perished
2nd Lt Fred Brewer Tuskegee Airman
This letter serves two purposes. One is to recognize the volunteers of our MIA Recovery Network team. Especially our ladies, Katherine Rasdorf, a former Marine, and our two engineers, Jana Churchwell Scott and Barbara Geisler, both of whom contributed in the Brewer case in finding relatives of Lt. Brewer and obtaining the necessary DNA samples. John Potter, an Army veteran, and another veteran, Scott Gilbert who is a retired Navy veteran, continue to contribute in many areas also.
Another purpose is to illustrate how the DPAA process works in graphic form when remains are identified, which can be seen at the following link. It acknowledges our contribution to the process also.
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Iraq veteran is on mission to bring
home WWII missing in action - Aerotech News & Review
Army Sgt. 1st Class Mike Chilcote, a team
sergeant assigned to the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency, works on setting up a recovery mission in ...
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Michigan soldier killed in
Germany during WWII accounted for - UpNorthLive.com
WASHINGTON, D. C., (WPBN/WGTU) -- A U.S.
Army soldier from Detroit who died in Germany in World
War II has been accounted for, the Defense POW/MIA ...
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Flint soldier killed in WWII
accounted for after nearly 80 years - MLive.com
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting
Agency announced in a news release on Monday, Sept. 25, that
U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Max W. Thurston, 19, of Flint, killed ...
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Flint man killed in World War
II identified 79 years later | Local | abc12.com
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting
Agency launched a further investigation of American soldiers
killed in the Hürtgen Forest whose remains were ...
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Soldier Accounted for from WWII
(Thurston, M.)
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting
Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Max
W. Thurston, 19, of Flint, Michigan, killed during ...
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Explosives Expert Discusses
Mission to Recover WWII Remains - Department of Defense
Marine Corps Staff Sgt. Matthew
Sponagle, is a member of a 25-person team from the
Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency,
searching for the remains of ...
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German-Speaking Airman Aids
in Recovery of WWII Bomber Crew - Department of Defense
Brian Character, 39, is a member of a
25-person team from the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency that's searching for a B-24H
Liberator bomber that ...
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Lone Eagle Composite
Squadron, CAP, at POW/MIA Remembrance Vigil |
Madison, NJ Patch
Lone Eagle Composite Squadron, CAP,
participated in 2023 POW/MIA
Remembrance Vigil at the All-Veterans Memorial, 30
Flanders Rd, Flanders,NJ ...
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Vietnam POW will
share his story, from the 'Hanoi Hilton' to being grateful daily
He's also a part of several other
networks for veterans. Shugarts read
Halyburton's book, twice, and was amazed. "How the
heck did ...
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A Sacred Search in Germany
> U.S. Department of Defense > Story
Their work can be messy, but their
mission is sacred: The 25-member team is with the
Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency,
which is dedicated to ...
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12534083/Incredible-deep-sea-footage-shows-shipwreck-Japanese-aircraft-carrier-time-80-YEARS-sunk-fighters-Battle-Midway-Explorers-surveyed-carrier-Imperial-Army-battleship.html Seen for first time in 80 years: Incredible deep sea footage shows sunken Japanese aircraft carrier after it was hit by 1,000-pound bomb during Battle of Midway
Deep sea explorers have obtained highly detailed
images of three iconic shipwrecks from World War II's Battle of
Midway in the Pacific Ocean. The images, captured hundreds of
miles off Midway Atoll, halfway between the U.S. and Japan, are
the first close-up photos of the Japanese aircraft carrier, the
Akagi, not seen since it sunk in 1942. The Ocean Exploration
Trust, a nonprofit organization, conducted the underwater
surveys using the Exploration Vessel Nautilus. The Akagi's
location had been initially identified during a mapping survey
in 2019. In addition to the Akagi, the expedition team also
conducted the first comprehensive surveys of the Japanese
Imperial Navy's Kaga and the USS Yorktown. The USS Yorktown had
already been discovered 25 years earlier in 1998
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Remains of Korean War Soldier
to be buried in Monroe, Georgia - DVIDS
Wilkinson was accounted for by
the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency Dec. 5,
2022, after his remains were identified using chest
radiograph ...
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DOD won't stop until all
POW/MIAs are home - Aerotech News & Review
Army Capt. Jordan Smith, front, a
Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency team
leader, places sandbags around an excavated wall
during a recovery ...
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Former Soldier uses
archaeology training in MIA recovery | Article | The
United States Army
Eight years ago, Brown accepted an
offer from the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency to be a laboratory forensic
archaeologist and scientific recovery ...
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Leaving No One Behind: A
Commitment That Matters Beyond the Military - The Messenger
Everett Alvarez, Jr., the first pilot
captured and held as a prisoner of war (POW) ... (POW/MIA)
Recognition Day. Major General (ret.) Kelly McKeague,
who ...
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Back on home soil! Five Americans who were locked up in Iran land in
Virginia after prisoner swap and release of $6BN in Iranian funds frozen by
Trump
Siamak Namazi, Emad Shargi, Morad Tahbaz, and a man and a woman who have not yet been publicly named, touched down at Davison Army Airfield in Virginia on Tuesday morning after flying overnight from Doha. Their release was part of a 'humanitarian' trade with Iran, one of the country's fiercest adversaries, that involved the unfreezing of $6billion in assets that President Trump seized in 2018.
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https://www.military.com/daily-news/opinions/2023/09/15/hard-work-of-identifying-remains-of-service-members-missing-decades-must-continue.html?ESRC=eb_230918.nl&utm_medium=email&utm_source=eb&utm_campaign=20230918 The Hard Work of Identifying the Remains of Service Members Missing for Decades Must Continue (Opinion) |
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Weber speaks of his
father's letters home, captured during WWIII, during POW-MIA
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Don Weber holds a box of letters
written by his father during WWII during Western
Tech's POW-MIA event on Sept. 18,
2023. (PHOTO: Brad Williams).
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From:
DPAA NCR OC Mailbox Public Affairs <dpaa.ncr.oc.mbx.public-affairs@mail.mil>
Sent: 25 September, 2023 11:53
Subject: DPAA News Release - Michigan Soldier Accounted for from
WWII
Greetings,
Staff Sgt. Thurston was accounted for in July, but his family only recently received their full briefing on his identification, which is why this release is going out now.
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The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Max W. Thurston, 19, of Flint, Michigan, killed during World War II, was accounted for July 7, 2023.
In November 1944, Thurston was assigned to Company B, 1st Battalion, 109th Infantry Regiment, 28th Infantry Division. His regiment was engaged in fierce fighting near the town of Germeter, Germany, in the Hürtgen Forest, when he was reported killed in action on Nov. 6. His body was unable to be recovered due to intense fighting against heavily reinforced German forces. As American forces began to secure the area, many casualties were nonrecoverable due to dense tangled vegetation and heavy snowfall.
Following the end of the war, the American Graves Registration Command was tasked with investigating and recovering missing American personnel in Europe. They conducted several investigations in the Hürtgen area between 1946 and 1950, but were unable to identify Thurston’s remains among hundreds recovered during that period. He was officially declared Killed in Action in November 1944.
While studying unresolved American losses in the Hürtgen area, a DPAA historian determined that one set of unidentified remains, designated X-7476 Neuville, recovered in April 1948, possibly belonged to Thurston. The remains, which had been buried in Ardennes American Cemetery, an American Battle Monuments Commission site in Neuville-en-Condroz, Belgium, in 1949, were disinterred in July 2021 and sent to the DPAA laboratory for identification.
To identify Thurston’s remains, scientists from DPAA used anthropological analysis, as well as circumstantial evidence. Additionally, scientists from the Armed Forces Medical Examiner System used mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) and Y-chromosome DNA (Y-STR) analysis.
Thurston’s name is recorded on the Walls of the Missing at Netherlands American Cemetery, an American Battle Monuments Commission site in Margraten, Netherlands, along with the others still missing from World War II. A rosette will be placed next to his name to indicate he has been accounted for.
Thurston will be buried in Holly, Michigan on a date to be determined.
For family and funeral information, contact the Army Casualty Office at (800) 892-2490.
DPAA is grateful to the American Battle Monuments Commission and to the U.S. Army Regional Mortuary-Europe/Africa for their partnership in this mission.
For additional information on the Defense Department’s mission to account for Americans who went missing while serving our country, visit the DPAA website at www.dpaa.mil, find us on social media at www.facebook.com/dodpaa or https://www.linkedin.com/company/defense-pow-mia-accounting-agency.
Thurston’s personnel profile can be viewed at https://dpaa-mil.sites.crmforce.mil/dpaaProfile?id=a0Jt000001ETh50EAD.
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Remains of soldier killed in Korean
War returned to Greenville - WSPA
“It's been a very long time,”
Sullivan said. “He's been known as X274 for 73 years.” Once his
remains were identified, the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting ...
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Family remembers Nebraska
soldier, identified 72 years after death in Korean War - WOWT
A staggering number of ...
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POW
honored by Pennsylvania lawmaker who helped rescue her - ABC27
(WHTM)– The third Friday in
September is POW/MIA Recognition Day. This
week in the state senate one of the most famous POWs of the
last 50 years ...
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Daughter thanks DPAA
Researcher for bringing MIA father home 79 years later
... the second world, News and
Stories from the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency's Public Affairs Office and
External Relations.
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The Navy Test Pilot Who
Shot Down His Own Fighter Jet | Military.com
... POW/MIA Recognition
Day · USS Cole Sinking · Veterans Day · VJ Day ·
Women's History Month. Daily Military Trivia. 1) The
Akula-class of submarine was ...
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First collaborative inquiry
into the remains of American pilots | The DONG-A ILBO
... POW/MIA Accounting
Agency (DPAA), has initiated a joint investigation
starting on September 7. Their objective is to
locate the remains of U.S. ...
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South Carolina: Remains of
soldier come home - WYFF
In July 2019, the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency disinterred Unknown X-274 as part of Phase
Two of the Korean War Disinterment Project, sending ...
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Forensic photographer
documents remains of the missing - Aerotech News & Review
Marine Corps Sgt. Jack Rigsby, a
forensic photographer assigned to the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency, clears mud from a retention pond
during ...
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US Accelerates 'Underwater
Hunt' To Retrieve B-26 Invader Bomber That It Lost During The
...
... POW/MIA Accounting
Agency and ten troops of the South Korean military.
The project, which will go on until next week, is on
course to find the ...
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Soldier Accounted for from
Korean War (Hill, L.)
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Army Cpl.
Lewis W, Hill, 18, of Detroit, Michigan, killed during the
Korean ...
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WWII Airman laid to rest after
78 years | Article - Army.mil
2, 1948, Miklosh was declared
non-recoverable. The Joint POW/MIA Accounting
Command conducted a Joint Field Activity in October 2014 in
Sapekhati, ...
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Remains of Michigan soldier
killed in Korean War accounted for after 73 years
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency announced that Cpl. Lewis W. Hill
was accounted for on May 22.
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Kentucky soldier held as
prisoner of war to return home for burial after 80 years
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced that the remains
of a Kentucky soldier who died as a prisoner of war
in World War II will ...
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Guilty by Association Truck
Show starts strong in Joplin - Overdrive
Fritz Littlefield is showing his 2006
Peterbilt 379, which is dedicated to POW/MIA
service members. Jim Nalin's 2022 Freightliner
Cascadia CRST ...
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Soldier Accounted for from
Korean War (Dorrance, J.)
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Army Sgt.
1st Class James L. Dorrance, 20 of Omaha, Nebraska, ...
Remains of POW
during Korean War identified as Omaha soldier - KETV
The Defense POW MIA
Accounting Agency said Sgt. 1st Class James Dorrance
died as a prison of war in 1951 in North Korea.
Advertisement. The 20-year ...
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Remains of Michigan soldier
killed in Korean War accounted for after 73 years | Ap
The remains of an 18-year-old
Army corporal from Detroit who was killed in the Korean War
in 1950 have been identified. The Defense POW/MIA ...
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S. Korea, U.S. launch joint
underwater operation for Korean War remains - Yonhap News
Some 10 South Korean military
personnel, and 20 from the U.S. Forces Korea and the
Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency
began the joint excavation ...
Korea, US
launch joint underwater operation for Korean War
remains
... POW/MIA
Accounting Agency taking part in an
underwater search to recover the remains of
U.S. soldiers killed during the 1950-53
Korean War. Yonhap.
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Remains of Korean War
soldier from Detroit returning home - WLNS
... year, and his family more
recently received a full briefing on his
identification, the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency announced Thursday.
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Remains of WWII soldier to
be buried in Nashville - WZTV
Everything recovered was sent to a
Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency
Laboratory for analysis. Aiken was accounted for by
the DPAA May 5, 2023 ...
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Remains of Michigan soldier
killed in Korean War accounted for after 73 years | AP News
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency announced that Cpl. Lewis W. Hill
was accounted for on May 22 after agency scientists
identified his remains ...
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Remains of Michigan soldier
killed in Korean War accounted for after 73 years - KEYT
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency announced Thursday that Cpl. Lewis
W. Hill was accounted for on May 22 after agency
scientists identified ...
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Michigan soldier from
Korean War has now been accounted for - FOX 17
According to the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA), Hill was a member of L
Company, 3rd Battalion, 34th
Infantry Regiment, 24th Infantry ...
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Michigan man killed in
Korean War finally accounted for after over 70 years - WILX
According to The ...
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Remains of Michigan soldier
killed during Korean War identified - mlive.com
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency announced Thursday that U.S. Army
Cpl. Lewis W, Hill, 18, of Detroit, was accounted
for on May 22.
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From: DPAA NCR OC Mailbox Public
Affairs <dpaa.ncr.oc.mbx.public-affairs@mail.mil>
Sent: 21 September, 2023 12:55
Subject: DPAA News Release - Nebraska Soldier Accounted for
from Korean War
Greetings,
Sgt 1st Class Dorrance was accounted for in May, but his family only recently received their full briefing on his identification, which is why this release is going out now.
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The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class James L. Dorrance, 20 of Omaha, Nebraska, who died as a prisoner of war during the Korean War, was accounted for May 22, 2023.
In late 1950, Dorrance was a member of B Battery, 82nd Anti-Aircraft Artillery–Automatic Weapons Battalion, Division Artillery, 2nd Infantry Division, Eighth U.S. Army. He was reported missing in action on Dec. 1, 1950, after his unit’s withdrawal from Kunu-ri to Sunchon, in North Korea. In 1953, several POWs returned during Operation Big Switch reported Dorrance had been a prisoner of war and died on March 17, 1951 at Prisoner of War Camp #5, Pyoktong, North Korea.
In the fall of 1954, during Operation Glory, North Korea returned remains reportedly recovered from Camp #5, to the United Nations Command. However, Dorrance’s name did not appear on any of the transfer rosters and the Central Identification Unit in Kokura, Japan, did not associate any repatriated remains with him.
In July 2018, the DPAA proposed a plan to disinter 652 Korean War Unknowns from the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, known as the Punchbowl, in Honolulu. In September 2019, the DPAA disinterred Unknown X-14402, a set of remains returned during Operation Glory, as part of Phase Two of the Korean War Disinterment Plan and sent the remains to the DPAA laboratory for analysis.
To identify Dorrance’s remains, scientists from DPAA used dental and anthropological analysis as well as chest radiograph comparison. Additionally, scientists from the Armed Forces Medical Examiner System used mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) analysis.
Dorrance’s name is recorded on the Courts of the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific along with the others still missing from World War II. A rosette will be placed next to his name to indicate he has been accounted for.
Dorrance will be buried in Omaha, Nebraska, on a date to be determined.
For family and funeral information, contact the Army Casualty Office at (800) 892-2490.
To see the most up-to-date statistics on DPAA recovery efforts for those unaccounted for from the Korean War, go to the Korean War Accounting page on the DPAA website at: https://dpaa-mil.sites.crmforce.mil/dpaaFamWebKorean. DPAA is grateful to the American Battle Monuments Commission and the United States Army for their partnership in this mission.
For additional information on the Defense Department’s mission to account for Americans who went missing while serving our country, visit the DPAA website at www.dpaa.mil, or find us on social media at www.facebook.com/dodpaa or https://www.linkedin.com/company/defense-pow-mia-accounting-agency.
Dorrance’s personnel profile can be viewed at https://dpaa-mil.sites.crmforce.mil/dpaaProfile?id=a0Jt00000004rdKEAQ.
From:
DPAA NCR OC Mailbox Public Affairs <dpaa.ncr.oc.mbx.public-affairs@mail.mil>
Sent: 21 September, 2023 13:35
Subject: DPAA News Release - Iowa Airman Accounted for
from WWII
Greetings,
2LT Dailey was accounted for in June, but his family only recently received their full briefing on his identification, which is why this release is going out now.
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The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Army Air Forces 2nd Lt. Max E. Dailey, 21, of Cherokee, Iowa, killed during World War II was accounted for June 22, 2023.
In the summer of 1943, Dailey served with the 409th Bombardment Squadron (Heavy), 93rd Bombardment Group (Heavy), 9th Air Force. On Aug. 1, 1943, the B-24 Liberator aircraft on which Dailey was serving as a navigator, crashed as a result of enemy anti-aircraft fire during Operation TIDAL WAVE, the largest bombing mission against the oil fields and refineries at Ploiesti, north of Bucharest, Romania. His remains were not identified following the war. The remains that could not be identified were buried as Unknowns in the Hero Section of the Civilian and Military Cemetery of Bolovan, Ploiesti, Prahova, Romania.
Following the war, the American Graves Registration Command (AGRC), the organization that searched for and recovered fallen American personnel, disinterred all American remains from the Bolovan Cemetery for identification. The AGRC was unable to identify more than 80 unknowns from Bolovan Cemetery, and those remains were permanently interred at Ardennes American Cemetery and Henri-Chapelle American Cemetery, both in Belgium.
In 2017, DPAA began exhuming unknowns believed to be associated with unaccounted-for airmen from Operation TIDAL WAVE losses. These remains were sent to the DPAA Laboratory for examination and identification.
To identify Dailey’s remains, scientists from DPAA used anthropological analysis, as well as circumstantial evidence. Additionally, scientists from the Armed Forces Medical Examiner System used mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) analysis and autosomal DNA (auSTR).
Dailey’s name is recorded on the Tablets of the Missing at the Florence American Cemetery, an American Battle Monuments Commission site in Impruneta, Italy, along with others still missing from WWII. A rosette will be placed next to his name to indicate he has been accounted for.
Dailey will be buried in Charles City, Iowa, on a date to be determined.
For family and funeral information, contact the Army Casualty Office at (800) 892-2490.
DPAA is grateful to the American Battle Monuments Commission and to the U.S. Army Regional Mortuary-Europe/Africa for their partnership in this mission.
For additional information on the Defense Department’s mission to account for Americans who went missing while serving our country, visit the DPAA website at www.dpaa.mil or find us on social media at www.facebook.com/dodpaa or https://www.linkedin.com/company/defense-pow-mia-accounting-agency.
From:
DPAA NCR OC Mailbox Public Affairs <dpaa.ncr.oc.mbx.public-affairs@mail.mil>
Sent: 21 September, 2023 14:21
Subject: DPAA News Release - Michigan Soldier Accounted for from
Korean War
Greetings,
Cpl. Hill was accounted for in May, but his family only recently received their full briefing on his identification, which is why this release is going out now.
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The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Army Cpl. Lewis W, Hill, 18, of Detroit, Michigan, killed during the Korean War, was accounted for May 22, 2023.
In July 1950, Hill was a member of L Company, 3rd Battalion, 34th Infantry Regiment, 24th Infantry Division. He went missing in action after his unit was forced to retreat from the vicinity of Taejon, South Korea, on July 20. Due to the fighting, his body could not be recovered at that time, and there was never any evidence that he was a prisoner of war. The Army issued a presumptive finding of death on Dec. 31, 1953.
After regaining control of Taejon in the fall of 1950, the Army began recovering remains from the area and temporarily interring them at the United Nations Military Cemetery (UNMC) Taejon. One set of remains recovered during this period was designated Unknown X-29 Taejon. A tentative association was made between X-29 and Hill, but definitive proof could not be found, and X-29 was determined to be unidentifiable. The remains were sent to Hawaii where they were buried at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, known as the Punchbowl, in Honolulu.
In July 2018, the DPAA proposed a plan to disinter 652 Korean War Unknowns from the Punchbowl. On July 15, 2019, DPAA disinterred Unknown X-29 as part of Phase Two of the Korean War Disinterment Project and sent the remains to the DPAA laboratory, for analysis.
To identify Hill’s remains, scientists from DPAA used dental and anthropological analysis, as well as chest radiograph comparison and circumstantial evidence. Additionally, scientists from the Armed Forces Medical Examiner System used mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) analysis.
Hill’s name is recorded on the Courts of the Missing at the Punchbowl, along with the others who are still missing from the Korean War. A rosette will be placed next to his name to indicate he has been accounted for.
Hill will be buried in Imlay City, Michigan, on a date to be determined.
For family and funeral information, contact the Army Casualty Office at (800) 892-2490.
To see the most up-to-date statistics on DPAA recovery efforts for those unaccounted for from the Korean War, go to the Korean War Accounting page on the DPAA website at: https://dpaa-mil.sites.crmforce.mil/dpaaFamWebKorean.
For additional
information on the Defense Department’s mission to account for Americans who
went missing while serving our country, visit the DPAA website at www.dpaa.mil,
find us on social media at www.facebook.com/dodpaa or
https://www.linkedin.com/company/defense-pow-mia-accounting-agency.
Hill’s personnel profile can be viewed at
https://dpaa-mil.sites.crmforce.mil/dpaaProfile?id=a0Jt000000ildSCEAY.
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Remains of World War II Soldier
to be buried in Mammoth Cave, Kentucky - DVIDS
... POW camp, where more than 2,500 POWs
perished during the war. ... The remains were
disinterred again in 2018 and sent to a Defense POW/MIA
Accounting ...
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Upstate veteran to come home
more than 70 years after he left for war - WSPA
In 2019, Gosnell's remains were
disinterred and sent to the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency laboratory for analysis. Scientists were
able to ...
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Seligman native killed in World
War II recently buried in California - The Joplin Globe
After four project and two
Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency
investigations, the remains of the plane were discovered
just off Malakal Island. The ...
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Airman Accounted for from
WWII (Hurt, J.)
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S.
Army Cpl. James A. Hurt, 25, of East St. Louis,
Illinois, who was captured ...
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Remains of World War II
Soldier to be buried in Bradley, California - DVIDS
In March 2018, those remains were
disinterred by the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency and sent to a DPAA laboratory for
analysis. Harris was ...
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Remains of World War II
Soldier to be buried in Madison, Tennessee - DVIDS
... POW/MIA Accounting
Agency Laboratory for analysis. Aiken was accounted
for by the DPAA May 5, 2023, after his remains were
identified using ...
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La Crosse businessman shares
story of father's imprisonment during WWII at POW/MIA
event
Many veterans, along with other
community members, gathered at the college's POW/MIA
Memorial for the ceremony, just three days after National
POW/MIA ...
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'I will never forget that
moment:' WWII vet recounts liberation from Nazi POW camp
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Sitting with his wife, Paulette,
World War II veteran and POW Gene Metcalfe was
recognized by the Show Low VFW Post 9907 at the
National POW/MIA ...
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Detained Americans Fast
Facts - Local News 8
For information about missing
Americans, see Robert Levinson Fast Facts or POW/MIA
in Iraq and Afghanistan Fast Facts. Currently
Detained ...
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Sgt. Donal Aiken Obituary -
Williamson Memorial Funeral Home and Cremation Services
WASHINGTON – The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S.
Army Air Forces Sgt. Donal C. Aiken, 22, of
Everett,
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Columbus pilot accounted
for from WWII | The Highland County Press
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced Sept. 7 that U.S.
Army Air Forces 1st Lt. George W. Winger, 25, of
Columbus, Ohio, ...
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Remains World War II
Bridgeport soldier finally identified - The Daily Jeffersonian
He was killed during World War II,
according to the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA). In late 1943, Reynolds was
a pilot assigned to the ...
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CHARLES REYNOLDS | News,
Sports, Jobs - The Times Leader
In the summer of 2023, the
remains were positively identified after being evaluated at
the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency
laboratory in Hawaii ...
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Korean War soldier from PA
to be buried 73 years after he went missing - Erie Times-News
Sharrow's remains were positively
identified in January at the Department of Defense
POW/MIA Accounting Agency laboratory
at Joint Base Pearl Harbor- ...
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Service members still
missing are not forgotten | Military Scene |
theredstonerocket.com
Visiting after a POW-MIA
Remembrance Ceremony Saturday at the
Huntsville/Madison County Veterans Memorial are,
from left, Garrison Command Sgt. Maj.
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POW
losses from WWII sinking of Japanese hell ship include one from
Reading
Friday, September 15 marked this
year's POW/MIA Recognition Day. In
observance, volunteers with the non-profit Stories
Behind the Stars (www ...
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SEN. CRAPO: Keeping up the
fight to bring home Idaho's missing servicemembers
SEN. CRAPO: In honor of the
observation of National POW/MIA
Recognition Day this month, I join in raising
awareness about American servicemembers ...
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Identification of remains
of missing service members must continue | Columns | nny360.com
World War II veteran James F. Libfred
salutes for the singing of the national anthem in
2013 facing the new POW/MIA memorial
display during it's ...
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Remains of Korean War Soldier
to be buried in Anderson, South Carolina - DVIDS
In July 2019, the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency disinterred Unknown X-274 as part of Phase
Two of the Korean War Disinterment Project sending ...
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Offutt Lab dedicated to
identifying WWII POWs and MIA troops - KMTV
The Defense POW-MIA
Accounting Agency's goal is to find and identify 200
individuals a year, which they accomplished this
past year.
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JJ's Star Spangled Salute:
A Veteran Looks For Missing Veterans | 101.3 KFDI
Today, Mike is a team sergeant
assigned to the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency in charge of troops from nearly
all branches of the military on a 25- ...
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Ohio airman accounted for from
WWII | The Highland County Press
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced Sept. 11 that U.S. Army
Air Forces 1st Lt. Charles G. Reynolds, 24, of Bridgeport,
Ohio, ...
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Rhode Island soldier killed
in World War II identified, returned to US
... POW/MIA Accounting
Agency. Later that month, Searle's 90th Infantry
Division was ordered to withdraw to help with the
American effort in the ...
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WW2 airman ID'd after
divers find remains - Divernet
A WW2 airman missing in action for 80
years has been removed from the search-list of the
USA's Defence POW/MIA Accounting
Agency (DPAA), ...
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U.S. Navy service member
buried 79 years after being killed - Audacy
U.S. Navy Aviation Radioman First
Class Wilbur Mitts was laid to rest in Seaside,
California on Sept. 11, in advance of POW/MIA
Recognition Day ...
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Mississippi community
honors Prisoners of War and Missing in Action heroes
As “Taps” was played by Antonio
Altman, the POW/MIA and the United
States flags were raised. More Z-newsletter-news.
Mississippi man pleads guilty ...
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Once among the 80000+ missing
service members, a WWII Navy aviator is laid to rest
Sept. 15 is national POW MIA
day. More than 80000 service members that served in the last
century are still unaccounted for. One of those missing ...
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Prisoner of war speaks at
National POW/MIA Recognition Day event in Orlando -
YouTube
U.S. Army Specialist Shoshana Johnson was
the first Black woman to be taken as a prisoner of war
in American history back in 2003 when her ...
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Hawaii officials say DNA tests
drop Maui fire death count to 97 | News, Sports, Jobs
I would say we're not quite there yet,”
Byrd said. Defense POW/MIA Account Agency
Laboratory Director John Byrd (left) Maui County
Physician's ...
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79 years after WWII, Navy sailor laid to rest in California |
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Vietnam vet's 1973
disappearance still a mystery but puzzle of his bracelet
solved
Earlier this year Glenda Fisher of
Dalton found Cressman's POW/MIA bracelet
in a grab bag of jewelry items she ordered online.
It arrived from a ...
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Mark Millican: At great
cost | Lifestyles - Dalton Daily Citizen
The MIA bracelet. Several
months ago, high school friend Glenda Ridley Fisher
sent me a POW/MIA bracelet she found
in a “grab bag” of jewelry items ...
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The Hard Work of Identifying
the Remains of Service Members Missing for Decades Must Continue
U.S. Navy SEAL candidates
run with inflatable boats on their head. Navy Looks to
Punish 3 Top Officers Overseeing Navy SEAL Training
After Recruit ...
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DOD Won't Stop Looking
Until All POW/MIAs Are Home - Department of Defense
And, each year, we gather on this
National POW/MIA Recognition Day to
assure you that we remember them and that we will
not give up on our mission to ...
Retired Air Force Col.
Michael Brazelton, a pilot and four-time
Silver Star recipient, was held as a
prisoner of war in Vietnam for nearly seven
years ...
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Vietnam2Now holds 28th
annual POW/MIA candlelight ceremony - WIFR
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DOD holds solemn ceremony
on National POW/MIA Recognition Day |
13newsnow.com
DOD holds solemn ceremony on National
POW/MIA Recognition Day · Download the
13News Now - WVEC App.
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2 from Schuylkill County among
POWs lost during WWII sinking of Japanese ship | News
Friday marks this year's POW/MIA
Recognition Day. In observance, volunteers with the
nonprofit Stories Behind the Stars are recognizing the ...
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North Korea's silence stalls
recovery of America's war dead - Yahoo News
As the nation marks National
POW/MIA Recognition Day on Sept. 15,
approximately 7,500 American service members like Dulin are
still unaccounted for ...
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How Red Cross
Founder Clara Barton Helped Expose the Truth of a Notorious
Confederate Prison
Two decades before founding the
American Red Cross, Clara Barton was a
humanitarian without a cause ... Navy Top
Admiral Nominee Asked About Promotion ...
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Wichita native, WWII
soldier to be buried in hometown 80 years after death - KWCH
“In 2017, the Defense ...
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Remains of WWII bomber
navigator from Buffalo identified after 80 years | News
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency announced Thursday that U.S. Army
Air Forces 2nd Lt. Albert W. Stahl, 22, killed
during a bombing run over ...
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A Proclamation on National
POW/MIA Recognition Day, 2023 | The White House
Above the White House and the United
States Capitol — and at military bases, memorials,
cemeteries, and homes across America — we fly the
POW/MIA flag ...
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Missing in action, but
never forgotten - Clay Today
Orange Park's Mary Helen Hoff
developed the iconic black and white POW/MIA
flag. It will be the centerpiece as the nation
observes the missing and ...
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Airman Accounted for from WWII
(Johnston, T.)
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Army Air
Forces Tech. Sgt. Turner Y. Johnston, 21, of Loraine,
Texas, ...
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DOD Honors Prisoners of
War, Those Missing in Action - Department of Defense
National POW/MIA
Recognition Day, the third Friday in September,
honors U.S. service members who were prisoners of
war and those still missing in ...
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Airman Accounted for from
WWII (Stahl, A.)
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S.
Army Air Forces 2nd Lt. Albert W. Stahl, 22, of
Buffalo, New York, ...
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Remains of World War II
Airman Recovered Near Malta - Archaeology Magazine
The aircraft then headed toward
Malta, where there was an emergency landing site for
Allied aircraft, but it lost power on the way.
Defense POW/MIA ...
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Walter B. Miklosh, 21 |
Obituaries | myheraldreview.com - Sierra Vista Herald
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that the
U.S. Army Air Forces 2nd Lt. Walter B. Miklosh, 21,
of Chicago, Illinois ...
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DeWitt County family
recalls missing loved one Missing In Action - Cuero Record
Very few people are aware of this and
many people are not even aware of what the acronym
POW or MIA stand for: Prisoner Of War
and Missing In Action.
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Dispose of your old flag
the right way - Cornelius Today
The ceremony, in the north parking
lot at 107 N. Main St. in Huntersville, occurs on
National POW/MIA Recognition Day.
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After eight decades,
remains of World War II soldier from RI identified using DNA
evidence
The remains of Army Private First
Class Roy J. Searle of Johnston were accounted for
by the Defense POW/MIA Accounting
Agency in September 2022 ...
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From:
DPAA NCR OC Mailbox Public Affairs <dpaa.ncr.oc.mbx.public-affairs@mail.mil>
Sent: 14 September, 2023 09:38
Subject: DPAA News Release - New York Airman Accounted for from
WWII
Greetings,
U.S. Army Air Force 2nd Lt. Stahl was accounted for in September and his family received their full briefing on his identification, which is why this release is going out now.
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The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Army Air Forces 2nd Lt. Albert W. Stahl, 22, of Buffalo, New York, killed during World War II, was accounted for March 30, 2023
In the summer of 1943, Stahl was assigned to the 329th Bombardment Squadron (Heavy), 93d Bombardment Group (Heavy), 9th Air Force. On Aug. 1, 1943, the B-24 Liberator bomber on which Stahl was the navigator was hit by enemy anti-aircraft fire and crashed during Operation TIDAL WAVE, the largest bombing mission against the oil fields and refineries at Ploiesti, north of Bucharest, Romania. His remains were not identified following the war. The remains that could not be identified were buried as Unknowns in the Hero Section of the Civilian and Military Cemetery of Bolovan, Ploiesti, Prahova, Romania.
Following the war, the American Graves Registration Command (AGRC), the organization that searched for and recovered fallen American personnel, disinterred all American remains from the Bolovan Cemetery for identification. The AGRC was unable to identify more than 80 unknowns from Bolovan Cemetery, and those remains were permanently interred at Ardennes American Cemetery and Henri-Chapelle American Cemetery, both in Belgium.
In 2017, DPAA began exhuming unknowns believed to be associated with unaccounted-for airmen from Operation TIDAL WAVE losses. These remains were sent to the DPAA Laboratory at Offutt Air Force Base, Nebraska, for examination and identification.
To identify Stahl’s remains, scientists from DPAA used dental and anthropological analysis. Additionally, scientists from the Armed Forces Medical Examiner System used mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) analysis.
Stahl’s name is recorded on the Tablets of the Missing at Florence American Cemetery, an American Battle Monuments Commission site in Impruneta, Italy, along with others still missing from WWII. A rosette will be placed next to his name to indicate he has been accounted for.
Stahl will be buried in Kenmore, New York, in the Spring of 2024.
For family and funeral information, contact the Army Casualty Office at (800) 892-2490.
DPAA is grateful to the American Battle Monuments Commission and to the U.S. Army Regional Mortuary-Europe/Africa for their partnership in this mission.
For additional information on the Defense Department’s mission to account for Americans who went missing while serving our country, visit the DPAA website at www.dpaa.mil or find us on social media at www.facebook.com/dodpaa or https://www.linkedin.com/company/defense-pow-mia-accounting-agency.
Stahl’s personnel profile can be viewed at https://dpaa-mil.sites.crmforce.mil/dpaaProfile?id=a0Jt00000004pO8EAI.
From:
DPAA NCR OC Mailbox Public Affairs <dpaa.ncr.oc.mbx.public-affairs@mail.mil>
Sent: 14 September, 2023 08:01
Subject: DPAA News Release - Texas Airman Accounted for from
World War II
Greetings,
Tech. Sgt. Turner was accounted for in April, but his family only recently received their full briefing on his identification, which is why this release is going out now.
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The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Army Air Forces Tech. Sgt. Turner Y. Johnston, 21, of Loraine, Texas, killed during World War II, was accounted for April 25, 2023.
In the summer of 1943, Johnston was assigned to the 415th Bombardment Squadron (Heavy), 98th Bombardment Group (Heavy), 9th Air Force. On Aug. 1, 1943, the B-24 Liberator bomber on which Johnston was an engineer-gunner was hit by enemy anti-aircraft fire and crashed during Operation TIDAL WAVE, the largest bombing mission against the oil fields and refineries at Ploiesti, north of Bucharest, Romania. His remains were not identified following the war. The remains that could not be identified were buried as Unknowns in the Hero Section of the Civilian and Military Cemetery of Bolovan, Ploiesti, Prahova, Romania.
Following the war, the American Graves Registration Command (AGRC), the organization that searched for and recovered fallen American personnel, disinterred all American remains from the Bolovan Cemetery for identification. The AGRC was unable to identify more than 80 unknowns from Bolovan Cemetery, and those remains were permanently interred at Ardennes American Cemetery and Henri-Chapelle American Cemetery, both in Belgium.
In 2017, DPAA began exhuming unknowns believed to be associated with unaccounted-for airmen from Operation TIDAL WAVE losses. These remains were sent to the DPAA Laboratory at Offutt Air Force Base, Nebraska, for examination and identification.
To identify Johnston’s remains, scientists from DPAA used anthropological analysis, Additionally, scientists from the Armed Forces Medical Examiner System used mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA), Y chromosome DNA (Y-STR) and autosomal DNA (auSTR) analysis.
Johnston’s name is recorded on the Tablets of the Missing at the Florence American Cemetery, an American Battle Monuments Commission site in Impruneta, Italy, along with others still missing from WWII. A rosette will be placed next to his name to indicate he has been accounted for.
Johnston will be buried in Belton, Texas, on Oct. 21, 2023.
For family and funeral information, contact the Army Casualty Office at (800) 892-2490.
DPAA is grateful to the American Battle Monuments Commission and to the U.S. Army Regional Mortuary-Europe/Africa for their partnership in this mission.
For additional information on the Defense Department’s mission to account for Americans who went missing while serving our country, visit the DPAA website at www.dpaa.mil or find us on social media at www.facebook.com/dodpaa or https://www.linkedin.com/company/defense-pow-mia-accounting-agency
Johnston’s personnel profile can be viewed at https://dpaa-mil.sites.crmforce.mil/dpaaProfile?id=a0Jt00000004pTqEAI
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Remains of U.S. WWII pilot who
never returned from mission identified - WSGW
Charles G. Reynolds. Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency. According to the Defense Department,
scientists identified the remains as belonging to ...
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ID'ing lost military crew
members a noble cause - The Mining Journal
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency said all crew members died instantly.
Scientists used techniques such as mitochondrial DNA to
identify ...
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Remains of U.S. WWII pilot who
never returned from mission identified - MSN
... a bombing mission in World War II
have been accounted for and confirmed, officials from
the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency said
Monday.
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50th Autumn Daze in Historic Downtown Branson - KRZK 106.3
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Korean war solider called home
| Times Georgian
According to the release issued
by the Defense POW/MIA Agency. He was reported
missing at age 19 in action during battle along the Naktong
River ...
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Vietnam POWs from SC
recognized for their sacrifice | Military Digest |
postandcourier.com
Letters to Vietnam POW Charles
“Chuck” Jackson sit on his kitchen table ... A bag of POW/MIA
bracelets that were sold in Charleston sit on Charles ...
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American WW2 airman's
remains recovered off Malta - Yahoo News
... you know, very small."On June 20,
2023, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting
Agency said Sgt. Newman had been officially
accounted for.
'We've brought
the boy home' - airman's remains recovered from the
seabed - Times of Malta
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA), an agency within
the US Department of Defense tasked with
recovering military personnel listed as ...
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A painful privilege: Remembering their sacrifices & service - American Family News
| Date: | Tue, 12 Sep 2023 18:27:24 +0000 |
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https://www.aol.com/no-troops-left-behind-missing-091519922.html?soc_src=social-sh&soc_trk=ma
Subject: No troops left behind: Missing service members buried for decades in an Alaska glacier
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Remains of U.S. WWII
pilot who never returned from bombing mission identified
with DNA
To have this closure in our
lifetime is amazing, and so appreciated!"
pilot.jpg Charles G. Reynolds Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency. The Defense POW ...
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Remains of Kentucky POW
from WWII finally coming home - Louisville Public Media
Brooks was buried in a
communal grave at the POW camp, and after the war, ...
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency
later exhumed the remains for ...
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Airman Accounted for from
WWII (Reynolds, C.)
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Army
Air Forces 1st Lt. Charles G. Reynolds, 24, of
Bridgeport, Ohio, ...
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World War II veteran
from Rhode Island identified using DNA evidence - AP News
Roy Searle, 22, of Providence was
mortally wounded during enemy engagement in
December 1944, and his body was never recovered,
the Defense POW/MIA ...
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Airman sank with plane
in WWII. The California man's remains recovered 80 years
later
... Sgt. Irving Newman of Los
Angeles was assigned to a bomber squadron in
1943, the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA) said in an Aug.
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World War II veteran
from Rhode Island identified using DNA evidence - Waco
Tribune-Herald
An American soldier from Rhode
Island who was killed in Germany during World
War II has been identified using DNA evidence.
The Defense POW/MIA ...
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Remains identified of
Michigan airman who died in crash following WWII bombing
raid on Japan
(Photo: Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency). MARQUETTE, Mich. (AP) -
Military scientists have identified the remains
of a U.S. Army airman from ...
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https://www.military.com/daily-news/2023/09/10/us-navy-veteran-got-unexpected-help-while-jailed-iran-once-released-he-repaid-favor.html?ESRC=eb_230911.nl&utm_medium=email&utm_source=eb&utm_campaign=20230911 A US Navy Veteran Got Unexpected Help While Jailed in Iran. Once Released, He Repaid the Favor |
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Divers recover US
airman's remains from WWII bomber wreck near Malta | Live
Science
Scientific analysis by the
Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency
(DPAA) has confirmed the remains are those of
U.S. Army Air Forces (USAAF) Sgt.
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World War II pilot
finally comes home - Williamsport Sun-Gazette
... tag was located and remains
exhumed from a French cemetary after positive
identification from the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency in 2022.
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Maltese dive team
recovers World War Two airman's remains - Scuba Diver
Magazine
The 22-year-old airman was
initially listed as MIA, but the Defence POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA), an agency within the
US Department of ...
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Remains of Michigan-born
Pearl Harbor sailor identified more than 80 years later
According to U.S. Navy
POW/MIA Communications, within 15 minutes of
the first torpedo strike, the ship had rolled over
completely, trapping many ...
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Editorial: Jimmy Buffett
used fame to spotlight causes dear to his heart
He also was involved in
efforts such as Singing for Change and the Palm Beach
Navy SEAL Evening of Tribute, entertained the troops
in harm's way, ...
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Documentary highlights
one group's recovery efforts for MIAs - News Letter Journal
Ray Krogman, American Legion Post
44, National POW/MIA Day, Washakie
Cinemas, Project Recover, Newcastle Wyoming
News, Weston County Wyoming News,
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From: DPAA NCR
OC Mailbox Public Affairs <dpaa.ncr.oc.mbx.public-affairs@mail.mil>
Greetings, 1LT Reynolds was accounted for in July, but his family only recently received their full briefing on his identification, which is why this release is going out now.
--------- The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Army Air Forces 1st Lt. Charles G. Reynolds, 24, of Bridgeport, Ohio, killed during World War II, was accounted for July 18, 2023. In late 1943, Reynolds was a pilot assigned to the 498th Bombardment Squadron, 345th Bombardment Group, in the Southwest Pacific Theater. On November 27, the B-25D Mitchell which Reynolds was a crewmember of, did not return from its bombing mission near Wewak, New Guinea. The aircraft had sustained heavy damage from anti-aircraft fire and the pilot was forced to make an emergency landing in the waters of Karau Lagoon, in the Murik Lakes. Efforts to recover Reynolds’s remains were unsuccessful, and the crew was labeled Missing In Action. Following the war, the American Graves Registration Service, the organization that searched for and recovered fallen American personnel, conducted exhaustive searches of battle areas and crash sites in New Guinea, concluding their search in late 1948. Investigators recovered fragmentary sets of human remains near Murik, as well as wreckage that was identified as belonging to a B-25 Mitchell. The remains, designated X-4180 and X-4196, were consolidated and declared unidentifiable, and were interred at Fort McKinley Cemetery in Manila. In 2019 a recovery team working near Murik found possible material evidence, which prompted historians and forensic anthropologists within DPAA to propose the disinterment of X-4180. By January 8, 2020, X-4180 was exhumed and sent to the DPAA Laboratory for identification. To identify Reynolds’s remains, scientists from DPAA used dental and anthropological analysis, as well as material and circumstantial evidence. Additionally, scientists from the Armed Forces Medical Examiner System used mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) analysis. Reynolds’s name is recorded on the Walls of the Missing at the Manila American Cemetery and Memorial, an American Battle Monuments Commission site in the Philippines, along with others still missing from WWII. A rosette will be placed next to his name to indicate he has been accounted for. Reynolds will be buried in Bridgeport, Ohio, on a date to be determined. For family and funeral information, contact the Army Casualty Office at (800) 892-2490. DPAA is grateful to the government of Papua New Guinea for their partnership in this mission. For additional information on the Defense Department’s mission to account for Americans who went missing while serving our country, visit the DPAA website at www.dpaa.mil, find us on social media at www.facebook.com/dodpaa or https://www.linkedin.com/company/defense-pow-mia-accounting-agency. Reynolds’s personnel profile can be viewed at https://dpaa-mil.sites.crmforce.mil/dpaaProfile?id=a0Jt000001RAInTEAX. |
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Remains identified of a
Michigan pilot who died in a crash after bombing Japan during
World War II
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency said Friday that the remains of U.S.
Air Force Flight Officer Chester L. Rinke from
Marquette, Michigan, ...
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Seaside WWII Sailor To
Be Interred After 79 Years | Watsonville, CA Patch
Mitts, 24, was one of three crew
members on a TBM-1C Avenger that took off from
the USS Enterprise on Sept. 10, 1944, according
to the POW/MIA agency.
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World War II veteran,
Atlanta native laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery -
WSB-TV
In April, the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced Navy Mess
Attendant 2nd Class Archie Callahan, Jr. had
been accounted for in late ...
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From:
DPAA NCR OC Mailbox Public Affairs <dpaa.ncr.oc.mbx.public-affairs@mail.mil>
Sent: 8 September, 2023 10:05
Subject: DPAA News Release - Michigan Airman Accounted
for from WWII
Greetings,
Flight Officer Rinke was accounted for in May, but his family only recently received their full briefing on his identification, which is why this release is going out now.
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The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Army Air Forces Flight Officer Chester L. Rinke, 33, of Marquette, Michigan, killed during World War II, was accounted for May 5, 2023.
In the summer of 1944, Rinke was assigned to the 678th Bombardment Squadron, 444th Bombardment Group (Very Heavy), 58th Bombardment Wing, Twentieth Bomber Command. On June 26, Rinke while serving as the flight officer on the B-29 Superfortress crashed into a rice paddy in the village of Sapekhati, India after a bombing raid on Imperial iron and steel works at Yawata, Kyushu Island, Japan. All 11 crew members were killed instantly in the crash.
On June 28, 1944 a team from 342nd Service Squadron, 329th Service Group visited the crash site recovering and identifying only seven sets of remains which were interred at in United States Military Cemetery in Panitola, Assam, India and subsequently disinterred and sent to their final internment on Jan. 13, 1948. By September of that same year, the American Graves Registration Command (AGRC) concluded that Rinke’s remains were non-recoverable.
In October 2014 the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command (a DPAA predecessor organization) conducted a Joint Field Activity in Sapekhati, which led to the location of the crash site and the recovery of life support equipment and wreckage associated with the B29 aircraft. In 2018 and 2019, Southeastern Archaeological Research (SEARCH) a DPAA partner organization excavated the site and recovered possible osseous remains and material evidence.
To identify Rinke’s remains, scientists from DPAA used anthropological analysis as well as material evidence. Additionally, scientists from the Armed Forces Medical Examiner System used mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA), analysis.
Rinke will be buried at Seville, Ohio, on a date to be determined.
For family and funeral information, contact the Army Casualty Office at (800) 892-2490.
For additional information on the Defense Department’s mission to account for Americans who went missing while serving our country, visit the DPAA website at www.dpaa.mil or find us on social media at www.facebook.com/dodpaa or https://www.linkedin.com/company/defense-pow-mia-accounting-agency.
Rinke’s personnel profile can be seen here: https://dpaa-mil.sites.crmforce.mil/dpaaProfile?id=a0Jt0000000XmBUEA0.
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Senator Pete Ricketts: Getting
answers for our POW/MIA families - Fremont Tribune
National POW/MIA
Recognition Day on Sept. 15 is an opportunity to honor and
remember the women and men who may be missing but must never
be ...
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Thornton family finally honors
WWII relative, POW decades since his death - YouTube
Thornton family finally honors WWII
relative, POW decades since his death. 3 views ·
5 minutes ago ...more ... Law&Crime Network New
54K views.
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Senator Pete Ricketts:
Getting answers for our POW/MIA families - Fremont
Tribune
National POW/MIA
Recognition Day on Sept. 15 is an opportunity to
honor and remember the women and men who may be
missing but must never be ...
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WWII soldier to come home
for burial | Local News | thenewsenterprise.com
“The (Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency) had been researching this
particular area in Italy in Sicily, where there was
a large battle in World War ...
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Remains identified of
Michigan airman who died in crash following WWII bombing raid
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency said Friday that the remains of
U.S. Army Air Forces Flight Officer Chester L. Rinke
of Marquette were ...
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World War II POW Private
First-Class finally coming home for rest | WCLU Radio
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency announced Tuesday that Brooks, 23, of
Mammoth Cave was accounted for on June 20th of this year.
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SERVICE CIRCUIT: Different
ways to honor those missing in action - Macomb Daily
The POW-MIA flag is the
only flag other than the American flag that flies
over The White House and the U.S. Capitol.
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Remains of Michigan airman
who crashed into rice paddy during WWII identified - mlive.com
MARQUETTE, MI – The body of a
Michigan airman who went missing during World War II
has been accounted for, the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency ...
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After nearly 80 years,
Marquette airman accounted for following WWII death - WZZM 13
In October 2014, a crew with the
Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command
returned to the crash site and located debris from
the plane. In 2018 and 2019, a ...
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Remains identified of
Michigan airman who died in crash following WWII bombing raid on
Japan
The Defence POW/MIA
Accounting Agency said Friday that the remains of US
Army Air Forces Flight Officer Chester L. Rinke of
Marquette, Michigan, ...
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U.S. Army Air Forces Tech
Sgt. Elton L. Gomillion Accounted for March 30, 2023 - The Katy
News
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency gained ID through DNA tracing on
March 30, 2023. The funeral procession will depart
from Nobles Funeral Home ...
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Remains of Kentucky POW
from WWII finally coming home - WKU Public Radio
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency later exhumed the remains for analysis.
His great nephew, Gerald Carroll of Mammoth Cave, contacted
Brook's ...
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Airman Accounted for from
WWII (Rinke, C.)
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S.
Army Air Forces Flight Officer Chester L. Rinke, 33,
of Marquette, ...
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'Oh, my God. He made it.'
Tennessee woman sends POW/MIA bracelet to
Bradenton vet
By some accounts, as many as 5
million POW/MIA bracelets were
produced during the Vietnam War. Each was inscribed
with the name of a member of the ...
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Remains identified of
Michigan airman who died in crash following WWII bombing raid on
Japan
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency said Friday that the remains of
U.S. Army Air Forces Flight Officer Chester L. Rinke
of Marquette, Michigan, ...
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How POWs, MIAs
became a national priority | The American Legion
Alice Stratton and other wives of
American POWs made the prisoners' ... a nation
behind their cause with the wildly popular POW/MIA
bracelets and ...
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Long lost Michigan airman
from World War II finally accounted for after decades - WEYI
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency announced Friday that U.S. Army
Air Forces Flight Officer Chester L. Rinke, 33, of
Marquette, Michigan, ...
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Former POW Jessica Lynch
keynote speaker at Gallipolis POW/MIA Recognition
Day ceremonies
National POW/MIA
Recognition Day is an observance that honors POWs as
well as those who are still missing in action, or
MIA.
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World War II hero finally
home: Yakima soldier's remains identified and returned after
nearly 80 years
The soldier who was originally
identified as Froemke was disinterred from the
gravesite in Yakima and the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency will work ...
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From: DPAA NCR OC Mailbox
Public Affairs <dpaa.ncr.oc.mbx.public-affairs@mail.mil>
Greetings, Lieutenant Winger was accounted for in January, but his family only recently received their full briefing on his identification, which is why this release is going out now. ----------------
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Army Air Forces 1st Lt. George W. Winger, 25, of Columbus, Ohio, killed during World War II, was accounted for January 24, 2023.
In the summer of 1943, Winger was assigned to the 66th Bombardment Squadron (Heavy), 44th Bombardment Group (Heavy), 8th Air Force. On Aug. 1, 1943, the B-24 Liberator aircraft on which Winger was serving as the pilot was hit by enemy anti-aircraft fire and crashed during Operation TIDAL WAVE, the largest bombing mission against the oil fields and refineries at Ploiesti, north of Bucharest, Romania. His remains were not identified following the war. The remains that could not be identified were buried as Unknowns in the Hero Section of the Civilian and Military Cemetery of Bolovan, Ploiesti, Prahova, Romania.
Following the war, the American Graves Registration Command (AGRC), the organization that searched for and recovered fallen American personnel, disinterred all American remains from the Bolovan Cemetery for identification. The AGRC was unable to identify more than 80 unknowns from Bolovan Cemetery, and those remains were permanently interred at Ardennes American Cemetery and Henri-Chapelle American Cemetery, both in Belgium.
In 2017, DPAA began exhuming unknowns believed to be associated with unaccounted-for airmen from Operation TIDAL WAVE losses. These remains were sent to the DPAA Laboratory for examination and identification.
To identify Winger’s remains, scientists from DPAA used anthropological analysis. Additionally, scientists from the Armed Forces Medical Examiner System used mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) analysis.
Winger’s name is recorded on the Tablets of the Missing at the Florence American Cemetery, an American Battle Monuments Commission site in Impruneta, Italy, along with others still missing from WWII. A rosette will be placed next to his name to indicate he has been accounted for.
Winger will be buried in Arlington National Cemetery on a date to be determined.
For family and funeral information, contact the Army Casualty Office at (800) 892-2490.
DPAA is grateful to the American Battle Monuments Commission and to the U.S. Army Regional Mortuary-Europe/Africa for their partnership in this mission.
For additional information on the Defense Department’s mission to account for Americans who went missing while serving our country, visit the DPAA website at www.dpaa.mil or find us on social media at www.facebook.com/dodpaa or https://www.linkedin.com/company/defense-pow-mia-accounting-agency.
Winger’s personnel profile can be viewed at https://dpaa-mil.sites.crmforce.mil/dpaaProfile?id=a0Jt000001MvtWgEAJ. |
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From: DPAA NCR OC
Mailbox Public Affairs <dpaa.ncr.oc.mbx.public-affairs@mail.mil>
Greetings, U.S. Army Air Force Pfc. Glenn Harris was accounted for in July, but his family only recently received their full briefing on his identification, which is why this release is going out now. ---------- The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Army Air Forces Pfc. Glenn A. Harris, 20, of Monterey, California, who was captured and died as a prisoner of war during World War II, was accounted for July 7, 2023.
In late 1941, Harris was a member of the 93rd Bombardment Squadron, 19th Bombardment Group, when Japanese forces invaded the Philippine Islands in December. Intense fighting continued until the surrender of the Bataan peninsula on April 9, 1942, and of Corregidor Island on May 6, 1942.
Thousands of U.S. and Filipino service members were captured and interned at POW camps. Harris was among those reported captured when U.S. forces in Bataan surrendered to the Japanese. They were subjected to the 65-mile Bataan Death March and then held at the Cabanatuan POW Camp #1. More than 2,500 POWs perished in this camp during the war.
According to prison camp and other historical records, Harris died July 26, 1942, and was buried along with other deceased prisoners in the local Cabanatuan Camp Cemetery in Common Grave 225.
Following the war, American Graves Registration Service (AGRS) personnel exhumed those buried at the Cabanatuan cemetery and relocated the remains to a temporary U.S. military mausoleum near Manila. In 1947, the AGRS examined the remains in an attempt to identify them. Three of the sets of remains from Common Grave 225 were identified, but the rest were declared unidentifiable. The unidentified remains were buried at the Manila American Cemetery and Memorial (MACM) as Unknowns.
In March 2018, the remains associated with Common Grave 225 were disinterred and sent to the DPAA laboratory for analysis.
To identify Harris’s remains, scientists from DPAA used anthropological analysis as well as circumstantial evidence. Additionally, scientists from the Armed Forces Medical Examiner System used mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA), Y-chromosome DNA (Y-STR), and autosomal DNA (auSTR) analysis.
Although interred as an Unknown in MACM, Harris’ grave was meticulously cared for over the past 70 years by the American Battle Monuments Commission (ABMC).
Harris will be buried in Bradley, California, on Sept. 29, 2023.
For family and funeral information, contact the Army Casualty Office at (800) 892-2490.
DPAA is grateful to the ABMC and the United States Army for their partnership in this mission.
For additional information on the Defense Department’s mission to account for Americans who went missing while serving our country, visit the DPAA website at www.dpaa.mil, find us on social media at www.facebook.com/dodpaa or https://www.linkedin.com/company/defense-pow-mia-accounting-agency.
Harris’ personnel profile can be viewed at https://dpaa-mil.sites.crmforce.mil/dpaaProfile?id=a0Jt0000000ccfPEAQ. |
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From:
DPAA NCR OC Mailbox Public Affairs <dpaa.ncr.oc.mbx.public-affairs@mail.mil>
Greetings, Private 1st Class Searle was accounted for in September, 2022, but his family only recently received their full briefing on his identification, which is why this release is going out now.
---------- The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Army Pfc. Roy J. Searle, 22, of Providence, Rhode Island, killed during World War II, was accounted for Sept. 27, 2022.
In December 1944, Searle was assigned to Company D, 1st Battalion, 357th Infantry Regiment, 90th Infantry Division. His unit crossed the Saar River on Dec. 6 and attempted for the next several days to capture and hold two heavily defended towns of Pachten and Dillingen, Germany. Searle was mortally wounded during enemy engagement on Dec. 9, and was reported to have died of his wounds. In mid-December 1944, the 90th Infantry Division was ordered to withdraw to assist the American effort in the Ardennes during the Battle of the Bulge. The tactical situation prevented the 357th Infantry from recovering the remains of all of its fallen before relocating.
Searle's body was among those not recovered.
Following the end of the war, the American Graves Registration Command (AGRC), was tasked with investigating and recovering missing American personnel in Europe. They conducted several investigations in the Pachten-Dillingen area from 1946 to 1950 but were unable to recover or identify Searle’s remains. He was declared non-recoverable in October 1951.
While studying
unresolved American losses in the Pachten-Dillingen area,
DPAA historians analyzed
documentation related to a set of unidentified
remains, designated X-4650 St. Avold, recovered in 1946 from a
civilian cemetery in Reimsbach, Germany.
To identify Searle’s remains, scientists from DPAA used dental and anthropological analysis. Additionally, scientists from the Armed Forces Medical Examiner System used mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA), Y chromosome DNA (Y-STR) and autosomal DNA (auSTR) analysis.
Searle’s name is recorded on the Walls of the Missing at Lorraine American Cemetery, an American Battle Monuments Commission site in, St. Avold, France, along with the others still missing from World War II. A rosette will be placed next to his name to indicate he has been accounted for.
Searle will be buried Sept. 13, 2023, in Lake Worth, Florida.
For family and funeral information, contact the Army Casualty Office at (800) 892-2490.
DPAA is grateful to the American Battle Monuments Commission and to the U.S. Army Regional Mortuary-Europe/Africa for their partnership in this mission. DPAA would also like to thank Mr. Chris Seiwert, Mr. Peter Jung, and the Verein zur Bergung Gefallener in Osteuropa e.V. (VBGO) in Germany for assistance in information related to 90th Infantry Division losses and battle sites in the Pachten-Dillingen area.
For additional information on the Defense Department’s mission to account for Americans who went missing while serving our country, visit the DPAA website at www.dpaa.mil, find us on social media at www.facebook.com/dodpaa or https://www.linkedin.com/company/defense-pow-mia-accounting-agency.
Searle’s personnel profile can be viewed at https://dpaa-mil.sites.crmforce.mil/dpaaProfile?id=a0Jt000001EhJLcEAN. |
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Nothing Left Behind -
Ricochet
... dedicated to repatriating the
remains of an estimated 38,000 POW/MIAs classified
as “recoverable” by the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency.
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Missing World War II
pilot's body found 79 years after he crashed during mission
against ...
The remains of Second Lieutenant Fred
L Brewer Jr, 23, were identified on August 10,
according to the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA) ...
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Remains of Korean War soldier
from Central Texas to arrive at final resting place in Dallas
Baty was accounted for ...
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Soldier Accounted for from
Korean War (Turba, S.) - Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S.
Army Sergeant Stanley Turba, 27, of Russellton,
Pennsylvania, killed during ...
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Free lecture to mark
National POW/MIA Recognition Day at Relic Room -
Columbia Star
Vietnam POW homecoming The United
States will observe National POW/MIA
Recognition Day Friday, September 15 to honor
Americans who were either ...
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Airman Accounted for from
WWII (Harris, G.)
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S.
Army Air Forces Pfc. Glenn A. Harris, 20, of
Monterey, California, ...
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Remains of KY WWII private
who died in POW camp accounted for, to be buried - The
Paducah Sun
1st Class Thomas F. Brooks of Mammoth
Cave, Kentucky, was just 23 years old when he died
as a prisoner of war on Dec. 10, 1942, the Defense
POW/MIA ...
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Ky. soldier who died in
Japanese prisoner of war camp coming home for burial - Kentucky
Today
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced Tuesday U.S. Army
Pfc. Thomas Franklin Brooks, 23, of Mammoth Cave,
who was captured and ...
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Gov. Beshear Recognizes
Sacrifice of Kentucky Soldier Who Died as Japanese Prisoner of
...
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced Tuesday that U.S.
Army Pfc. ... More than 2,500 POWs perished in this
camp during the war.
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79 years after WWII, Navy
sailor to be laid to rest in Monterey County | KRON4
... 1944 while his crew was flying
over enemy military targets on the Palau Islands,
according to the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA).
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Beshear recognizes
sacrifice of Kentucky soldier who died as Japanese prisoner of
war in WWII
That announcement was made by the
Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency
Tuesday. “It is heartbreaking to learn about this
loss, but we are thankful for ...
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Finally identified with
DNA, Vietnam flyer to receive full military burial in hometown -
WLOS
... Captain Frederick Hall will be
laid to rest in his hometown of Waynesville on Oct.
10, 2023. (Photo credit: Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency).
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Acadiana veteran aims to build
cabin for families of soldiers killed in Afghanistan helicopter
crash
Broussard resident Jeremy
Thibodeaux, a Silver Star recipient and former staff
sergeant, flight engineer and door gunner in the U.S. Army
Special ...
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Date Set For POW
Hero Frank Brooks' Return Home, Funeral - THE EDMONSON VOICE
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced on Tuesday that
U.S. Army Pvt. 1st Class Thomas F. Brooks, 23, of
Mammoth Cave, Kentucky, ...
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Body of Tuskegee airman
positively identified after eight decades - TheGrio
According to the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPPA), Second Lt. Fred L. Brewer
Jr. went missing on Oct. 19, 1944, while on a bomber
escort ...
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Missing WWII pilot's body
found 79 years after he crashed during mission - Metro
The remains of Second Lieutenant Fred
L Brewer Jr, 23, were identified on August 10,
according to the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA).
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Kentucky
WW2 POW to be laid to rest at Mammoth Cave - WBKO
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency announced that Private First Class
Thomas F. Brooks of Mammoth Cave was accounted for
on June 20th.
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Explosive Ordnance Disposal
technicians help to bring fallen American heroes home
Joint service EOD technicians serve
as an integral part of the Defense POW-MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA) and support investigation
and recovery ...
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Body of Yakima soldier
killed in World War II coming home | News - nbcrightnow.com
Froemke's remains were identified by
the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency
in 2022. Froemke graduated from Yakima High School
and the State ...
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Providence World War II
veteran to be buried in Florida - ABC6
Bock said that Searle's remains were
accounted for by the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency on Sept. 27, 2022. Boynton
Memorial Chapel will perform ...
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From:
DPAA NCR OC Mailbox Public Affairs <dpaa.ncr.oc.mbx.public-affairs@mail.mil>
Sent: 5 September, 2023 15:54
Subject: DPAA News Release - Kentucky Tanker Accounted for from
WWII
Greetings,
U.S. Army PFC Thomas Brooks was accounted for in June, but his family only recently received their full briefing on his identification, which is why this release is going out now.
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The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Army Pvt. 1st Class Thomas F. Brooks, 23, of Mammoth Cave, Kentucky, who was captured and died as a prisoner of war during World War II, was accounted for June 20, 2023.
In late 1942, Brooks was a member of the Company D, 194th Tank Battalion, US Army Forces Far East, when Japanese forces invaded the Philippine Islands in December. Intense fighting continued until the surrender of the Bataan peninsula on April 9, 1942, and of Corregidor Island on May 6, 1942.
Thousands of U.S. and Filipino service members were captured and interned at POW camps. Brooks was among those reported captured when U.S. forces in Bataan surrendered to the Japanese. They were subjected to the 65-mile Bataan Death March and then held at the Cabanatuan POW camp. More than 2,500 POWs perished in this camp during the war.
According to prison camp and other historical records, Brooks died Dec. 10, 1942, and was buried along with other deceased prisoners in the local Cabanatuan Camp Cemetery in Common Grave 917.
Following the war, American Graves Registration Service (AGRS) personnel exhumed those buried at the Cabanatuan cemetery and relocated the remains to a temporary U.S. military mausoleum near Manila. In 1947, the AGRS examined the remains in an attempt to identify them. Five sets of remains from Common Grave 917 were identified, but the rest were declared unidentifiable. The unidentified remains were buried at the Manila American Cemetery and Memorial (MACM) as Unknowns.
In early 2018, the remains associated with Common Grave 917 were disinterred and sent to the DPAA laboratory for analysis.
To identify Brooks’s remains, scientists from DPAA used dental and anthropological analysis, as well as circumstantial evidence. Additionally, scientists from the Armed Forces Medical Examiner System used mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) analysis.
Although interred as an Unknown in MACM, Brooks’s grave was meticulously cared for over the past 70 years by the American Battle Monuments Commission (ABMC).
Brooks will be buried on October 01, 2023, in Mammoth Cave, Kentucky.
For family and funeral information, contact the Army Casualty Office at (800) 892-2490.
DPAA is grateful to the ABMC and the United States Army for their partnership in this mission.
For additional information on the Defense Department’s mission to account for Americans who went missing while serving our country, visit the DPAA website at www.dpaa.mil, find us on social media at www.facebook.com/dodpaa or https://www.linkedin.com/company/defense-pow-mia-accounting-agency.
Brooks’s personnel profile can be viewed at https://dpaa-mil.sites.crmforce.mil/dpaaProfile?id=a0Jt0000000XiGLEA0
From:
DPAA NCR OC Mailbox Public Affairs <dpaa.ncr.oc.mbx.public-affairs@mail.mil>
Sent: 5 September, 2023 10:18
Subject: DPAA News Release - North Carolina Pilot Accounted for
from WWII
Greetings,
U.S. Army Air Forces 2LT Fred Brewer was accounted for in August, but his family only recently received their full briefing on his identification, which is why this release is going out now.
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The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Army Air Forces 2nd Lt. Fred L. Brewer Jr., 23, of Charlotte, North Carolina, killed during World War II, was accounted for Aug. 10, 2023.
In late 1944, Brewer was a pilot with the 100th Fighter Squadron, 332nd Fighter Group, in the European Theater. On Oct. 19, Brewer departed Ramitelli Air Base, Italy, as one of 57 fighters assigned to escort bombers to their targets in Regensburg, Germany. While enroute to their targets, the bomber group encountered heavy cloud cover over the Udine area of Italy, which forced several escort fighters to return early. According to another pilot witness, Brewer had attempted a steep climb to get above the cloud cover, which caused the engine of his P-51C Mustang, Traveling Light, to stall. It was reported Brewer’s aircraft had rolled over with the canopy jettisoned, but he was not observed ejecting from the plane. Brewer’s remains were not recovered, and he was subsequently declared missing in action.
In 2011, researchers discovered that an Italian resident of Moggio Udinese, Italy, used airplane wreckage found at a nearby crash site to create a memorial to fallen Americans who died during World War II. Around the same time, researchers analyzed the file for Unknown Remains X-125 Mirandola (X-125), which had been recovered but not identified from the Moggio Udinese civilian cemetery by American forces in 1946. These remains, unable to be identified at the time, were then interred at the Florence American Cemetery, Italy.
In 2022, DPAA and the American Battle Monuments Commission (ABMC) exhumed Unknown Remains X-125 for forensic analysis. These remains were sent to the DPAA Laboratory for examination and identification.
To identify Brewer’s remains, scientists from DPAA used anthropological analysis, as well as circumstantial evidence. Additionally, scientists from the Armed Forces Medical Examiner System used mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) and Y-chromosome DNA (Y-STR) analysis.
Brewer’s name is recorded on the Tablets of the Missing at the Florence American Cemetery, an ABMC site in Impruneta, Italy, along with others still missing from WWII. A rosette will be placed next to his name to indicate he has been accounted for.
For family and funeral information, contact the Army Casualty Office at (800) 892-2490.
DPAA is grateful to the American Battle Monuments Commission and to the U.S. Army Regional Mortuary-Europe/Africa for their partnership in this mission.
For additional information on the Defense Department’s mission to account for Americans who went missing while serving our country, visit the DPAA website at www.dpaa.mil or find us on social media at www.facebook.com/dodpaa or https://www.linkedin.com/company/defense-pow-mia-accounting-agency.
Brewer’s personnel profile can be viewed at https://dpaa-mil.sites.crmforce.mil/dpaaProfile?id=a0Jt0000009CEtjEAG
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U.P. native who died during Pearl
Harbor attack to be laid to rest - The Mining Journal
Chief Warrant Officer John A.
Austin, who perished saving his shipmates' lives, was awarded
the Navy Cross. Lt. Commander Hugh Alexander, ...
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Remains of WWII private who
died in POW camp accounted for, to be buried in home town in
...
10, 1942, the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency said. Brooks was a member of the
Company D, 194th Tank Battalion, U.S. Army Forces Far
East.
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Missing, not forgotten -
Sanilac County News - MiHomepaper
Dear Editor: Friday, September 15, 2023
is National POW/MIA Recognition Day. The
observance is to honor and recognize the sacrifices of
those ...
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Federal agency identifies
World War II soldier as 23-year-old Kentuckian - WHAS11
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency said they identified U.S. Army
Pvt. 1st Class Thomas F. Brooks, 23, of Mammoth
Cave, Kentucky on June 20, 2023.
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Seligman WWII sailor to be
buried in California - Cassville Democrat
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA) has announced that U.S.
Navy Aviation Radioman First Class Wilbur A. Mitts,
24, of Seaside, ...
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Sailor returns home after 80 years - Essex News Daily
In partnership with the Defense
POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA), Project
Recover recovered MIAs from the Avenger during their first
MIA Recovery ...
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Tanker Accounted for from
WWII (Brooks, T.)
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S.
Army Pvt. 1st Class Thomas F. Brooks, 23, of Mammoth
Cave, Kentucky, ...
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Local Family shares their
Pow/Mia Connection during Recognition Day
This is a day where we remember those
who were prisoners of war (POW) and those who
have been missing in action (MIA), across our
different branches ...
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Remains of Missing Tuskegee
Pilot Identified Nearly 79 Years After World War II Mission
Lt. Fred L. Brewer Jr., pilot from
WWII. Defense POW/MIA Accounting
Agency. Brewer was flying with 56 other pilots to
protect bombers from enemy fire ...
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Lost remains of Pa. soldier
killed during the Korean War to be buried at Indiantown Gap
"(Jury) was accounted for by the
Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency Feb.
10, 2022, after his remains were identified using
circumstantial evidence as ...
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Tuskegee Airman from
Charlotte who went MIA in WWII identified | wcnc.com
Second Lt. Fred Brewer Jr. was
declared MIA after a crash during a bomber mission
over Germany. ... Credit: Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency.
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Remains of Tuskegee pilot
who went missing during World War II identified after 79 years
Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency(WASHINGTON) -- The remains of a
Tuskegee pilot have been identified, 79 years after
he went missing during World ...
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From:
DPAA NCR OC Mailbox Public Affairs <dpaa.ncr.oc.mbx.public-affairs@mail.mil>
Greetings, U.S. Army Air Forces 2LT Edward Barnett was accounted for in May, but his family only recently received their full briefing on his identification, which is why this release is going out now. ------------- The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Army Air Forces 2nd Lt. Edward Barnett, 24, of Chicago, Illinois, killed during World War II was accounted for May 5, 2023. In the summer of 1943, Barnett served with the 66th Bombardment Squadron (Heavy), 44th Bombardment Group (Heavy), 8th Air Force. On Aug. 1, 1943, the B-24 Liberator aircraft on which Barnett was serving as a co-pilot crashed as a result of enemy anti-aircraft fire during Operation TIDAL WAVE, the largest bombing mission against the oil fields and refineries at Ploiesti, north of Bucharest, Romania. His remains were not identified following the war. The remains that could not be identified were buried as Unknowns in the Hero Section of the Civilian and Military Cemetery of Bolovan, Ploiesti, Prahova, Romania. Following the war, the American Graves Registration Command (AGRC), the organization that searched for and recovered fallen American personnel, disinterred all American remains from the Bolovan Cemetery for identification. The AGRC was unable to identify more than 80 unknowns from Bolovan Cemetery, and those remains were permanently interred at Ardennes American Cemetery and Henri-Chapelle American Cemetery, both in Belgium. In 2017, DPAA began exhuming unknowns believed to be associated with unaccounted-for airmen from Operation TIDAL WAVE losses. These remains were sent to the DPAA Laboratory at Offutt Air Force Base, Nebraska, for examination and identification. To identify Barnett’s remains, scientists from DPAA used anthropological analysis, as well as circumstantial evidence. Additionally, scientists from the Armed Forces Medical Examiner System used mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) and Y chromosome DNA (Y-STR) analysis. Barnett’s name is recorded on the Tablets of the Missing at the Florence American Cemetery, an American Battle Monuments Commission site in Impruneta, Italy, along with others still missing from WWII. A rosette will be placed next to his name to indicate he has been accounted for. Barnett’s funeral will be in Arlington National Cemetery, on a date to be determined. For family and funeral information, contact the Army Casualty Office at (800) 892-2490. DPAA is grateful to the American Battle Monuments Commission and to the U.S. Army Regional Mortuary-Europe/Africa for their partnership in this mission. For additional information on the Defense Department’s mission to account for Americans who went missing while serving our country, visit the DPAA website at www.dpaa.mil or find us on social media at www.facebook.com/dodpaa or https://www.linkedin.com/company/defense-pow-mia-accounting-agency. Barnett’s personnel profile can be viewed at https://dpaa-mil.sites.crmforce.mil/dpaaProfile?id=a0Jt000001MvtWbEAJ. |
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WWII POW from
Swanton laid to rest on U.S. soil - MyChamplainValley.com
The Department of Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency says he's Army PFC Arthur Barrett.
He was stationed in the Philippines in late 1941
when ...
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After 79 years, Pentagon
identifies remains of a Tuskegee Airman from North Carolina
Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency. RALEIGH. Fred L. Brewer Jr., a
native of Charlotte and graduate of Shaw University
in Raleigh, climbed into a ...
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Tuskegee Airman from North
Carolina identified as unknown soldier 79 years after vanishing
in WWII
The Pentagon and the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency said Brewer's identity was
confirmed on Aug. 10, 2023. Brewer went missing
while piloting ...
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Pentagon identifies remains
of North Carolina Tuskegee Airman after 79 years - WRAL.com
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S.
Army Air. By. WRAL Staff. The US Military has
identified the remains of a ...
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Remains of Tuskegee pilot
who vanished in WWII have been identified - Washington Post
Last month, the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA) said it had concluded that
previously unidentified remains recovered from
northern Italy ...
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Albert Gosnell Obituary -
Cremation Society of South Carolina - Westville Funerals -
Greenville - 2023
Soldier Accounted for From Korean War
(Gosnell, A.) The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S.
Army Pfc. Albert A.
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Biden to award Medal of Honor to
army pilot who rescued soldiers in Vietnam | US military
The Silver Star, one of
Taylor's many awards, is one of the military's top honors for
valor in combat. But to his supporters, that medal represented
a ...
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Air Force Sergeant declared
missing in action during WWII found decades later
... missing in action during World War II
was recently accounted for, the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency announced in a release on Thursday.
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Houser honored during veterans
memorial ceremony - Greensburg Daily News
Rolling Thunder's primary purpose is to
publicize POW-MIA issues, to educate the
public that many American Prisoners of War were left
behind after all ...
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Ensign William Finnegan, killed
December 7, 1941, will be buried at Pearl Harbor on September 8
In a press release sent to The City
Sentinel (Oklahoma City), the U.S. Navy POW/MIA
communications staff wrote recently:
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Korean War soldier to be buried
in Annville | News | huntingdondailynews.com
He was accounted for by the Defense
POW/MIA Accounting Agency Feb. 10, 2022,
after his remains were identified using circumstantial
evidence as ...
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Second Lieutenant James
Litherland III - Williamsport Sun-Gazette
Positive identification was confirmed in
2022, by the Defense POW/MIA Accounting
Agency. 2LT Litherland's military awards and decorations
include:.
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The Presidential Unit
Citation's history of heroism - Task & Purpose
... cross — the Navy or Air Force
Cross or the Distinguished Service Cross ...
The service crosses sit just below the Medal of
Honor in individual ...
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Here are all the US
military units receiving the Presidential Unit Citation for the
Kabul evacuation
... warrant award of a DSC [Distinguished
Service Cross] to an individual. ... The
Department of the Navy has announced the following
Marine Corps ...
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Air Force Sergeant declared
missing in action during WWII found decades later - FOX 5 San
Diego
... went missing in action during
World War II was recently accounted for, the Defense
POW/MIA Accounting Agency announced in
a release on Thursday.
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Soldier Accounted for from
WWII (Moniz, D.)
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that Army
Pvt. Daniel Moniz, 19, of Hayward, California,
killed during World War II, ...
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Pilot Accounted for from
WWII (Brewer, F.)
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S.
Army Air Forces 2nd Lt. Fred L. Brewer Jr., killed
during World War II, ...
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“Out and About” Prisoners
of war, gas, and natural resources - Wilcox Newspapers
It's great to see so many American
flags displayed around the community. What's even
better is to see POW/MIA flags flown
as well.
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Sailor From The Ozarks To
Be Laid To Rest This Month - KTTS 94.7 FM
After four project and two Defense
POW/MIA Accounting Agency investigations,
the remains of the plane were discovered just off
Malakal Island.
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Soldier Accounted for from
Korean War (Baty, W.)
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting
Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Army Sgt. Willie J.
Baty, 20, of Mexia, Texas, killed during the Korean War ...
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Remains of WWII soldier to
be laid to rest in Williamsport, PA a - WENY News
X-452's case was closed on 1950
before being reopened again in 2019, with the The
Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency
taking over the investigation, ...
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Pilot Accounted for from World
War II (McGuire, E.)
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Army Air
Forces 1st Lt. Edward T. McGuire, 22, of Chicago,
Illinois, ...
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New policy limits which
flags can fly on county-owned flagpoles - Ashland Source
For the first time in years, the
flagpole outside the Ashland County building will
not fly the black POW/MIA flag
underneath Old Glory.
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Remains of a Vermont
soldier, who died as a prisoner of war during WWII, buried in
... - Globe Echo
More than 2,500 died at Cabanatuan
camp during the war, according to the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency. GERMAN CURATOR'S MISSION IS TO
RETURN ...
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Former prisoner of war to
speak on POW/MIA Recognition Day - The
Transylvania Times
On Friday, Sept. 15, National POW/MIA
Recognition Day, the Veterans History Museum of the
Carolinas will host a presentation by Lt. Col. David
B.
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Airman Accounted for from
WWII (Newman, I.)
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S.
Army Air Forces Sergeant Irving R. Newman, 22, of
Los Angeles, California, ...
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Finding remains of missing
service members a diplomatic success story - MilitaryNews.com
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency has been searching for remains of
U.S. military members in 45 nations.
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Remains of Army Pfc. Arthur
Barrett, WWII soldier who died as prisoner of war, buried ... -
CBS News
Army Pfc. Arthur Barrett Defense
POW/MIA Accounting Agency. Barrett was
among thousands of U.S. and Filipino service members
captured and held at ...
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Remains of Swanton WWII
soldier to be buried at Arlington - Williston Observer
... then held at the Cabanatuan POW
camp, where more than 2,500 POWs ... and sent to the
Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA)
laboratory at ...
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Remains of WWII soldier to
be buried in Williamsport | News | huntingdondailynews.com
... from the crash site two years
earlier, were sent to the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency laboratory at Offutt Air Force
Base for analysis.
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Former DPAA deputy director
honored with Patriot Award | The American Legion
Johnie Webb, who began his
career at the Defense POW/MIA Accounting
Agency (DPAA) in 1994 and retired from the same agency in
December 2022 as its ...
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Remains of Vermont World
War II soldier are buried at Arlington National Cemetery - KRDO
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency says he was among thousands of
U.S. and Filipino service members captured and held
at prisoner of war camps.
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'This Is Horrible': Homeless Veterans Are Being Buried in Paupers' Graves Near Fort Moore
.....Liddell walked around the pauper section of Porterdale Cemetery as thunder rumbled, lightning cracked and rain poured down from the dark gray clouds above.Whelan, 53, who has Canadian and US citizenship, was shown at a Russian max-security prison in footage filmed by Kremlin-backed channel Russia Today. Whelan traveled to the Russian capital for a friend's wedding in 2018, but he was arrested there and sentenced to 16 years in jail following a closed trial. He is recognized as 'wrongfully detained' by the US government. His family, who have not seen him since he was jailed in June 2020, said they were glad to see 'the fight remains in his eyes'. In RT footage filmed in May but only just released, he is shown queuing with fellow inmates in the prison yard, stitching together clothing in a factory, and sitting with a tray of gray-looking food in a canteen. He is also approached by the RT camera crew but refuses to do an interview...
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Denby Fawcett: Why Some Maui Fire Victims Will Never Be Found - Honolulu Civil Beat| August 27, 2023 | |
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12450281/Archaeologists-unearth-evidence-mass-execution-German-prisoners-forced-dig-graves-shot-dead-French-resistance-D-Day.htmlArchaeologists unearth evidence of mass execution of German prisoners who were forced to dig their own graves before being shot dead by the French resistance after D-Day
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National Security
Commission hears POW/MIA accounting progress,
resupply needs of ...
Principal Deputy Director Dr. Fern
Sumpter Winbush of the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency addresses a question asked by
American Legion National ...
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From: DPAA NCR OC
Mailbox Public Affairs <dpaa.ncr.oc.mbx.public-affairs@mail.mil>
Sent: 1 September, 2023 08:19
Subject: DPAA News Release - California Soldier Accounted for
from WWII
Greetings,
U.S. Army Pvt. Daniel Moniz was accounted for in May, but his family only recently received their full briefing on his identification, which is why this release is going out now.
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The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that Army Pvt. Daniel Moniz, 19, of Hayward, California, killed during World War II, was accounted for May 5, 2023.
In November 1944, Moniz was assigned to Medical Detachment, 12th Infantry Regiment, 4th Infantry Division. His unit was engaged in battle with German forces near Hürtgen, Germany, in the Hürtgen Forest, when he was killed in action on Nov. 11. Due to the tactical situation, his remains could not be immediately recovered.
Following the end of the war, the American Graves Registration Command was tasked with investigating and recovering missing American personnel in Europe. They conducted several investigations in the Hürtgen area between 1946 and 1950, but were unable to recover or identify Moniz’s remains. He was declared non-recoverable in December 1951.
While studying unresolved American losses in the Hürtgen area, a DPAA historian determined that one set of unidentified remains, designated X-8122 St. Avold, recovered from Germeter and Hürtgen possibly belonged to Moniz. The remains, which had been buried in Lorraine American Cemetery, an American Battle Monuments Commission site in Saint-Avold, France, in 1949, were disinterred in 2018 and sent to the DPAA laboratory for identification. While analyzing X-8122, DPAA scientists also examined X-8118 St. Avold, had been recovered commingled with X-8122.
To identify Moniz’s remains, scientists from DPAA used dental and anthropological analysis, as well as circumstantial evidence. Additionally, scientists from the Armed Forces Medical Examiner System used mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA), Y chromosome DNA (Y-STR) and autosomal DNA (auSTR) analysis.
Moniz’s name is recorded on the Walls of the Missing at Netherlands American Cemetery, an American Battle Monuments Commission site in Margraten, Netherlands, along with the others still missing from World War II. A rosette will be placed next to his name to indicate he has been accounted for.
Moniz will be buried in Hayward, California, on September 29, 2023.
For family and funeral information, contact the Army Casualty Office at (800) 892-2490.
DPAA is grateful to the American Battle Monuments Commission and to the U.S. Army Regional Mortuary-Europe/Africa for their partnership in this mission.
For additional information on the Defense Department’s mission to account for Americans who went missing while serving our country, visit the DPAA website at www.dpaa.mil, find us on social media at www.facebook.com/dodpaa or https://www.linkedin.com/company/defense-pow-mia-accounting-agency.
From:
DPAA NCR OC Mailbox Public Affairs <dpaa.ncr.oc.mbx.public-affairs@mail.mil>
Sent: 31 August, 2023 13:42
Subject: DPAA News Release - Texas Soldier Accounted for from
Korean War
Greetings,
U.S. Army Sgt. Willie J. Baty was accounted for in February, but his family only recently received their full briefing on his identification, which is why this release is going out now.
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The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Army Sgt. Willie J. Baty, 20, of Mexia, Texas, killed during the Korean War, was accounted for Feb. 8, 2023.
In the fall of 1950, Baty was a member of L Company, 3rd Battalion, 24th Infantry Regiment, 25th Infantry Division. He was reported missing in action on Sept. 14 when his unit was forced to withdraw from the Masan area of the Pusan Perimeter, South Korea. Following the battle, his remains could not be recovered, and there is no evidence that he was ever a prisoner of war. The Army issued a presumptive finding of death on Dec. 31, 1953, and his remains were determined to be nonrecoverable on Jan. 16, 1956.
The U.S. Army Quartermaster Corps (AGRSG) was responsible for recovering, identifying, and repatriating those lost during the Korean War. In late 1950 they recovered a set remains designated as Unknown X-159 near Masan. After extensive analysis by the Central Identification Unit-Kokura in Japan was unable to identify X-159 the remains were declared unidentifiable. In Dec. 1950, the remains were buried at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, known as the Punchbowl, in Honolulu, with other Korean War Unknowns.
In July 2018, the DPAA proposed a plan to disinter 652 Korean War Unknowns from the Punchbowl. In March 2019, DPAA disinterred X-159 as part of Phase One of the Korean War Disinterment Plan and sent the remains to the DPAA laboratory at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii, for analysis.
To identify Baty’s remains, scientists from DPAA used dental, isotope and anthropological analysis. Additionally, scientists from the Armed Forces Medical Examiner System used mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) analysis.
Baty’s name is recorded on the Courts of the Missing at the Punchbowl, along with the others who are still missing from the Korean War. A rosette will be placed next to his name to indicate he has been accounted for.
Baty will be buried in Dallas, Texas, on Sept. 15, 2023.
For family and funeral information, contact the Army Casualty Office at (800) 892-2490.
To see the most up-to-date statistics on DPAA recovery efforts for those unaccounted for from the Korean War, go to the Korean War fact sheet on the DPAA website at: https://www.dpaa.mil/Resources/Fact-Sheets/Article-View/Article/569610/progress-on-korean-war-personnel-accounting/.
For additional information on the Defense Department’s mission to account for Americans who went missing while serving our country, visit the DPAA website at www.dpaa.mil, find us on social media at www.facebook.com/dodpaa or https://www.linkedin.com/company/defense-pow-mia-accounting-agency.
Baty’s personnel profile can be viewed at https://dpaa-mil.sites.crmforce.mil/dpaaProfile?id=a0Jt000000RcjSSEAZ
DPAA is making a correction for 1st Lt. McGuire’s internment date. Don’t forget to update your calendar.
From:
DPAA NCR OC Mailbox Public Affairs <dpaa.ncr.oc.mbx.public-affairs@mail.mil>
Sent: 31 August, 2023 16:29
To: DPAA NCR OC Mailbox Public Affairs <dpaa.ncr.oc.mbx.public-affairs@mail.mil>
Subject: RE: DPAA News Release - Illinois Pilot Accounted for
from WWII
Greetings –
We are sending out a corrected date for 1st Lt. McGuire’s internment, which will be on October 28, 2023. We apologize for the incorrect date originally sent out.
From:
DPAA NCR OC Mailbox Public Affairs
Sent: Thursday, August 31, 2023 12:56 PM
Subject: DPAA News Release - Illinois Pilot Accounted for
from WWII
Greetings,
U.S. Army Air Forces 1st Lt. Edward T. McGuire was accounted for in June, but his family only recently received their full briefing on his identification, which is why this release is going out now.
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The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Army Air Forces 1st Lt. Edward T. McGuire, 22, of Chicago, Illinois, killed during World War II was accounted for June 30, 2023.
In the summer of 1943, McGuire served with the 415th Bombardment Squadron (Heavy), 98th Bombardment Group (Heavy), 9th Air Force. On Aug. 1, 1943, the B-24 Liberator aircraft on which McGuire was serving as a pilot, crashed as a result of enemy anti-aircraft fire during Operation TIDAL WAVE, the largest bombing mission against the oil fields and refineries at Ploiesti, north of Bucharest, Romania. His remains were not identified following the war. The remains that could not be identified were buried as Unknowns in the Hero Section of the Civilian and Military Cemetery of Bolovan, Ploiesti, Prahova, Romania.
Following the war, the American Graves Registration Command (AGRC), the organization that searched for and recovered fallen American personnel, disinterred all American remains from the Bolovan Cemetery for identification. The AGRC was unable to identify more than 80 unknowns from Bolovan Cemetery, and those remains were permanently interred at Ardennes American Cemetery and Henri-Chapelle American Cemetery, both in Belgium.
In 2017, DPAA began exhuming unknowns believed to be associated with unaccounted-for airmen from Operation TIDAL WAVE losses. These remains were sent to the DPAA Laboratory for examination and identification.
To identify McGuire’s remains, scientists from DPAA used dental and anthropological analysis, as well as circumstantial evidence. Additionally, scientists from the Armed Forces Medical Examiner System used mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) and Y chromosome DNA (Y-STR) analysis.
McGuire’s name is recorded on the Tablets of the Missing at the Florence American Cemetery, an American Battle Monuments Commission site in Impruneta, Italy, along with others still missing from WWII. A rosette will be placed next to his name to indicate he has been accounted for.
McGuire will be buried on October 28, 2023, in Alsip, Illinois.
For family and funeral information, contact the Army Casualty Office at (800) 892-2490.
DPAA is grateful to the American Battle Monuments Commission and to the U.S. Army Regional Mortuary-Europe/Africa for their partnership in this mission.
For additional information on the Defense Department’s mission to account for Americans who went missing while serving our country, visit the DPAA website at www.dpaa.mil or find us on social media at www.facebook.com/dodpaa or https://www.linkedin.com/company/defense-pow-mia-accounting-agency.
McGuire’s personnel profile can be viewed at https://dpaa-mil.sites.crmforce.mil/dpaaProfile?id=a0Jt00000004pUAEAY
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Families of Korean War
missing still hopeful - Aerotech News & Review
Veronica Keyes, forensic
anthropologist with the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency, secures a box containing the
possible remains of service members ...
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Pentagon's Task Force
Leader Defends Speed Of Military's Response To Maui Fires
In addition, six forensic
anthropologists from the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency are working to identify human remains.
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https://www.military.com/daily-news/2023/08/24/mother-of-army-private-north-korea-tells-ap-her-son-has-so-many-reasons-come-home.html?ESRC=eb_230825.nl&utm_medium=email&utm_source=eb&utm_campaign=20230825 Mother of Army Private in North Korea Tells AP That Her Son 'Has So Many Reasons to Come Home' |
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Honoring past heroes -
AF.mil
Staff Sgt. Jonathan McElderry, a
forensic photographer with the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency, carries the remains of Air
Force Lt. Col.
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Finding remains of
missing service members a diplomatic success story - Audacy
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency has been searching for remains
of U.S. military members in 45 nations. Besides
bringing closure to their ...
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Bucks man: When you fly
the American flag, fly POW-MIA flag, too
The Bensalem branch of the Bucks
County Free Library flies the POW-MIA
flag beneath Old Glory to call attention those
who defended our nation and ...
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Finding Remains of
Missing Service Members a Diplomatic Success Story -
MilitarySpot.com
AUGUST 24, 2023 - The Defense
POW/MIA Accounting Agency has been
searching for remains of U.S. military members
in 45 nations.
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2nd Lt. Miklosh, a B-29
Superfortress navigator, accounted for from WWII - Audacy
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced this August
that U.S. Army Air Forces 2nd Lt. Walter B.
Miklosh, 21, of Chicago, Illinois, ...
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Pinoy Scientists
initiative marks 4th anniversary with two-part online panel
- FlipScience
... working with the Department
of Defense POW/MIA Accounting
Agency in the U.S. and a Diplomate of the
American Board of Forensic Anthropology.
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WSJ reporter Evan Gershkovich is ordered back to grim Moscow prison for
ANOTHER three months before his trial
after he was arrested on spying charges
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Korean War soldier from
Wisconsin buried after MIA for 72 years - WEAU
DuPont's remains were turned over
by North Korea in July 2018 and identified by
the Defense POW/MIA accounting
agency in January 2023. |
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Wisconsin soldier who
went missing in Korean War buried after 73 years | News -
WQOW
There was "no evidence that he
was not a prisoner of war" according to the
Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency
(DPAA). That's the Defense Department ...
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| August 22, 2023 | |
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Slow Progress on
Identifying Korean War Missing as North Korea Stonewalls on
Searches
... to identify their remains and
bring, News and Stories from the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency's Public Affairs Office and
External Relations.
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World War II hero given
proper burial after nearly 80 years - DVIDS
... exhumed the remains and
transferred them to the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency, where identification was
confirmed this year on May 11.
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Remains of Wisconsin Korean War
soldier to be interred in Fairchild - CBS 58
His remains were turned over by
North Korea on July 27, 2018, and identified by the Defense
POW/MIA Accounting Agency of this year.
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Families of Korean War
Missing Are Still Hopeful - Department of Defense
Every year for the last 30 years,
leaders and forensic experts from the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency have been briefing families of
the ...
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Centralia Balloon Fest
draws record crowd - WJBD
Veterans were honored Saturday night
when the POW/MIA balloon and this
balloon carrying the US Flag flew over the crowd to
honor veterans.
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Remains of Korean War
Soldier to be buried in Holly, Michigan - DVIDS
4, 2019, the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency disinterred Unknown X-5156, as
part of Phase Two of the Korean War Disinterment
Project, ...
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Remains of World War II
Soldier, Swanton, Vermont native, to be buried in Arlington
National ...
... then held at the Cabanatuan POW
camp, where more than 2,500 POWs ... disinterred in
January 2018 and sent to the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting ...
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Wichita WWII airman
identified after being MIA for 80 years - KAKE
A Wichita airman killed during World
War II has been accounted for 80 years after being
declared missing in action, The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting ...
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Slow Progress on Identifying Korean War Missing as North Korea Stonewalls on Searches
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IUP team leads students through
WWII archaeology project in Germany | TribLIVE.com
... II bomber in Germany as part of the
Indiana University of Pennsylvania partner recovery in
July with the Defense POW/MIA Accounting
Agency.
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| August 18, 2023 | |
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Remains of WWII POW from
Arizona identified - YouTube
U.S. Army Pfc. Lex L. Lillard of
Arizona died in 1942. His remains were unaccounted for until
the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency
recently ...
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U.S. Army Pacific continues
defense support efforts in Hawaii | Article
... approved the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency to assign six forensic
anthropologists to assist in gathering and
identifying human remains.
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Slow Progress on
Identifying Korean War Missing as North Korea Stonewalls on
Searches
Soldiers move the remains of an
service member MIA from the Korean War ... according
to the Defense POW/MIA Accounting
Agency, or DPAA.
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Bikers from all over ride
in the 2023 Fort Fest Biker escort to honor America's soldiers
To recognize those courageous men and
women, the escort was also accompanied by the
Chained Eagles of Ohio and their "POW/MIA
Wall".
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MIA
World War II First Army soldier accounted for, buried in
southern part of Illinois - WQAD
On May 11, 2023, he was accounted for
through identification methods, according to press
releases from the First Army and the Defense POW/MIA ...
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Remains of missing Korean
War soldier, a Detroit native, to be buried in Holly
Thursday, more than 70 years later,
the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency
(DPAA) announced that Miller was finally coming
home.
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How a German Homing Pigeon Who
Served in 2 World Wars Became an American Hero
That POW was a homing
pigeon, who U.S. soldiers named Kaiser after Kaiser Wilhelm
II, the last German emperor. Realizing the value of
sending ...
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Piecing Together the
Fragments of Memory to Find Vietnamese War Dead
Hugh Tuller, an anthropologist with
the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency,
examines a dig site during a recovery mission in
Nghe An province, ...
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WWII MIA Wichita Airman
Coming Home > McConnell Air Force Base > News
1, 2023, the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced U.S. Army Air Corps
Staff Sgt. Wesley L. Jones, 22, of Wichita, killed
during ...
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DNA helps military identify
remains of another soldier killed in Korean War
WASHINGTON — The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency has positively identified another
American soldier who fought and died during the Korean
War ...
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Remains of Oklahoma solider
killed during Korean War accounted for nearly 72 years later
On Tuesday, the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced that U.S. Army
Pvt. Alvin D. Thurman, 21, was accounted for March
30, 2023.
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Area soldier accounted for from
Korean War | Community News | thederrick.com
24, the Defense Department's
POW/MIA Accounting Agency announced Monday in a
news release. He will be buried in Marienville on Sept.
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MIA
in Korea, Sharrow coming home to Marienville | News |
bradfordera.com
Sharrow was 22 when he was
killed during the Korean War, and he was accounted for Jan.
24 by the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency.
In July 1950, ...
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Soldier Accounted for from
Korean War (Thurman, A.)
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S.
Army Pvt. Alvin D. Thurman, 21, Broken Bow,
Oklahoma, killed during the ...
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Oklahoma soldier killed
during Korean War finally accounted for - KFOR.com
U.S. Army Pvt. Alvin D. Thurman.
Image courtesy Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency.
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'He's home': Missing 73
years, Medal of Honor recipient's remains return to
Georgia | WHP
This undated photo shows the late
Army Cpl. Luther H. Story. The Army said Friday, May
19, 2023, that the remains of Cpl. Luther H. Story
will be ...
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Medal of Honor
Recipient Donald “Doc” Ballard - WISH-TV | Indianapolis News
Medal of Honor
Recipient Donald “Doc” Ballard. August 14, 2023. On
May 16, 1968, Navy Corpsman Donald “Doc” Ballard
dove on a grenade thrown by a ...
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Soldier Accounted for from WWII
(Lillard, L.)
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Army Pfc.
Lex L. Lillard, 20, of Tucson, Arizona, who was captured and
died ...
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Soldier Accounted for from
Korean War (Sharrow, R.)
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that Army
Sgt. Richard M. Sharrow, 22, of Marienville,
Pennsylvania, killed during ...
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Remains of WWII vet from Newton identified - Boston Herald
From: POW Network <info@pownetwork.org>
Sent: 15 August, 2023 19:56
To: undisclosed-recipients:
Subject: Fwd: FW: DPAA News Release - Oklahoma Soldier Accounted
for from Korean War
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Welcome HOME PVT. Thurman!
From: DPAA NCR OC Mailbox Public
Affairs
<dpaa.ncr.oc.mbx.public-affairs@mail.mil>
Sent: 15 August, 2023 11:18
Subject: DPAA News Release - Oklahoma Soldier Accounted
for from Korean War
Greetings,
U.S. Army Pvt. Alvin Thurman was accounted for in March, but his family only recently received their full briefing on his identification, which is why this release is going out now.
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The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Army Pvt. Alvin D. Thurman, 21, Broken Bow, Oklahoma, killed during the Korean War, was accounted for March 30, 2023.
In late 1951, Thurman was a member of 1st Platoon, A Company, 1st Battalion, 7th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Cavalry Division. Thurman was reported killed in action Nov. 6 after his unit’s withdrawal from Hill 200 in the present-day Korea Demilitarized Zone. The Army issued a presumptive finding of death in Nov. 28, 1951 and declared Thurman non-recoverable in Jan. 16, 1956
Following the war, the U.S. Army Quartermaster Corps, American Graves Registration Service (AGRS) tasked with recovering, identifying, and repatriating deceased U.S. service members. In December 1951 the AGRS recovered a set of remains designated X-5106 Tanggok south of Hill 200. On June 27, 1955, the remains were declared unidentifiable and subsequently transferred to the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific (NMCP,) known as the Punchbowl, in Honolulu and interred as an Unknown.
On Nov. 5, 2018, following thorough historical and scientific analysis, X-5106 Tanggok was disinterred from the Punchbowl and sent to the laboratory for analysis.
To identify Thurman’s remains, scientists from DPAA used dental, anthropological and chest radiograph comparison analysis. Additionally, scientists from the Armed Forces Medical Examiner System used mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) analysis.
Thurman’s name is recorded on the Courts of the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific also known as the Punchbowl Cemetery, along with the others who are still missing from the Korean War. A rosette will be placed next to his name to indicate he has been accounted for.
Thurman will be buried in Broken Bow, Oklahoma, on Oct. 21, 2023.
For family and funeral information, contact the Army Casualty Office at (800) 892-2490.
To see the most up-to-date statistics on DPAA recovery efforts for those unaccounted for from the Korean War, go to the Korean War Accounting page on the DPAA website at: https://dpaa-mil.sites.crmforce.mil/dpaaFamWebKorean.
For additional information on the Defense Department’s mission to account for Americans who went missing while serving our country, visit the DPAA website at www.dpaa.mil, find us on social media at www.facebook.com/dodpaa or https://www.linkedin.com/company/defense-pow-mia-accounting-agency.
Thurman’s personnel profile can be viewed at https://dpaa-mil.sites.crmforce.mil/dpaaProfile?id=a0Jt00000004lW5EAI.
From: DPAA NCR OC Mailbox Public Affairs <dpaa.ncr.oc.mbx.public-affairs@mail.mil>
Sent: 14 August, 2023 12:17
Subject: DPAA News Release - Arizona Soldier Accounted for from
World War II
Greetings,
U.S. Army Pfc. Lex Lillard was accounted for in May, but his family only recently received their full briefing on his identification, which is why this release is going out now.
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The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Army Pfc. Lex L. Lillard, 20, of Tucson, Arizona, who was captured and died as a prisoner of war during World War II, was accounted for May 22, 2023.
In late 1941, Lillard was a member of the Medical Department of Manila and Subic Bays in the Philippines, when Japanese forces invaded the Philippine Islands in December. Intense fighting continued until the surrender of the Bataan peninsula on April 9, 1942, and of Corregidor Island on May 6, 1942.
Thousands of U.S. and Filipino service members were captured and interned at POW camps. Lillard was among those reported captured when U.S. forces in Bataan surrendered to the Japanese. They were subjected to the 65-mile Bataan Death March and then held at the Cabanatuan POW camp. More than 2,500 POWs perished in this camp during the war.
According to prison camp and other historical records, Lillard died July 19, 1942, and was buried along with other deceased prisoners in the local Cabanatuan Camp Cemetery in Common Grave 312.
Following the war, American Graves Registration Service (AGRS) personnel exhumed those buried at the Cabanatuan cemetery and relocated the remains to a temporary U.S. military mausoleum near Manila. In 1947, the AGRS examined the remains in an attempt to identify them. Twelve of the sets of remains from Common Grave 312 were identified, but the rest were declared unidentifiable. The unidentified remains were buried at the Manila American Cemetery and Memorial (MACM) as Unknowns.
In January 2018, the remains associated with Common Grave 312 were disinterred and sent to the DPAA laboratory for analysis.
To identify Lillard’s remains, scientists from DPAA used anthropological analysis as well as circumstantial evidence. Additionally, scientists from the Armed Forces Medical Examiner System used mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) analysis.
Although interred as an Unknown in MACM, Lillard’s grave was meticulously cared for over the past 70 years by the American Battle Monuments Commission (ABMC).
Lillard will be buried in Jay, Oklahoma, on September 23, 2023.
For family and funeral information, contact the Army Casualty Office at (800) 892-2490.
DPAA is grateful to the ABMC and the United States Army for their partnership in this mission.
For additional information on the Defense Department’s mission to account for Americans who went missing while serving our country, visit the DPAA website at www.dpaa.mil, find us on social media at www.facebook.com/dodpaa or https://www.linkedin.com/company/defense-pow-mia-accounting-agency.
Lillard’s personnel profile can be viewed at https://dpaa-mil.sites.crmforce.mil/dpaaProfile?id=a0Jt0000000XlYNEA0.
From:
DPAA NCR OC Mailbox Public Affairs <dpaa.ncr.oc.mbx.public-affairs@mail.mil>
Sent: 14 August, 2023 13:30
Subject: DPAA News Release - Pennsylvania Soldier Accounted for
from Korean War
Greetings,
U.S. Army Sgt. Richard Sharrow was accounted for in January, but his family only recently received their full briefing on his identification, which is why this release is going out now.
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The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that Army Sgt. Richard M. Sharrow, 22, of Marienville, Pennsylvania, killed during the Korean War, was accounted for Jan. 24, 2023.
In July 1950, Sharrow was a member of Company F, 2nd Battalion, 5th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Cavalry Division, Eighth U.S. Army. He was reported missing in action on July 25 after his unit sustained heavy casualties while defending against the North Korean Army’s advance near Yongdong, South Korea. Following the battle, his remains could not be recovered, and there is no evidence that he was ever a prisoner of war. The Army issued a presumptive finding of death on Dec. 31, 1953, and his remains were determined non-recoverable in Jan. 16, 1956.
The U.S. Army Quartermaster Corps (AGRSG) was responsible for recovering, identifying, and repatriating those lost during the Korean War. In the spring of 1951, they recovered a set of remains designated as Unknown X-1023 near Yongdong. After extensive analysis by the Central Identification Unit-Kokura in Japan was unable to identify X-1023 the remains were declared unidentifiable. In April 1955, the remains were buried at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, known as the Punchbowl, in Honolulu, with other Korean War Unknowns.
In July 2018, the DPAA proposed a plan to disinter 652 Korean War Unknowns from the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, known as the Punchbowl, in Honolulu. On Oct. 21, 2019, the DPAA disinterred X-1023, as part of Phase Two of the Korean War Disinterment Plan and sent the remains to the DPAA laboratory for analysis.
To identify Sharrow’s remains, scientists from DPAA used dental and anthropological analysis as well as chest radiograph comparison. Additionally, scientists from the Armed Forces Medical Examiner System used mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) analysis.
Sharrow’s name is recorded on the Courts of the Missing at the Punchbowl, along with the others who are still missing from the Korean War. A rosette will be placed next to his name to indicate he has been accounted for.
Sharrow will be buried in Marienville, Pennsylvania, on Sept. 25, 2023
For family and funeral information, contact the Army Casualty Office at (800) 892-2490.
To see the most up-to-date statistics on DPAA recovery efforts for those unaccounted for from the Korean War, go to the Korean War fact sheet on the DPAA website at: https://www.dpaa.mil/Resources/Fact-Sheets/Article-View/Article/569610/progress-on-korean-war-personnel-accounting/.
For additional information on the Defense Department’s mission to account for Americans who went missing while serving our country, visit the DPAA website at www.dpaa.mil, find us on social media at www.facebook.com/dodpaa or https://www.linkedin.com/company/defense-pow-mia-accounting-agency.
Sharrow’s personnel profile can be viewed at https://dpaa-mil.sites.crmforce.mil/dpaaProfile?id=a0Jt0000000cdVpEAI
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Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency announces remains of Massachusetts Army Lt. identified
WASHINGTON – The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency has announced that U.S. Army Air Forces 1st
Lt. Alfred W. Pezzella, 27, of Newton, ...
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A prayer finally answered: WWII
pilot identified and headed home to Texas -- 79 years later
Because as the POW/MIA flag
still flies at the Dublin Post Office, their uncle's
story is at least no longer a mystery. "They died so
that we could ...
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DNA analysis helps identify
remains of WWII veteran - Military Times
(Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency). NEWTON, Mass. — The remains of a
World War II veteran killed when his bomber was shot
down on a mission ...
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Remains of World War II
Veteran Identified - EnergyPortal.eu -
Scientists from the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency conducted anthropological analysis
to help identify Pezzella's remains.
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The Remains of World War II
Veteran Identified - The Spy Who Billed Me -
Scientists from the Defense
POW/MIA Accounting Agency used anthropological
analysis and scientists from the Armed Forces Medical
Examiner System ...
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After nearly 80 years,
White City soldier finds final resting place - The State
Journal-Register
Radanovich was accounted for by the
Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA)
on May 11 after his remains were identified using
circumstantial ...
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A parting salute: After 73
years, soldier is finally laid to rest | News - High Point
Enterprise
An Army detachment from Fort
Liberty, more than a dozen motorcyclists from the Rolling
Thunder POW/MIA advocacy group, and the
commander of the ...
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Remains of Clearfield
soldier killed in Korean War were identified - Pittsburgh
Post-Gazette
Jury, who was from Clearfield, Pa.,
is one of 450 Americans killed in the Korean War who
have been identified and returned home by the
Defense POW/MIA ...
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Coming home: Return of
missing soldier's remains brings closure | The Paradise News
13, 2023, according to the Defense
POW/MIA Accounting Agency. Garner was
stunned. “We never thought he would be found because
his whole battalion ...
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At 82, decorated Army Green
Beret, Vietnam War veteran gets high school diploma
... medals and awards from his 20-year
military service as an Army Green Beret, including a
Silver Star, two Bronze Stars and a Purple Heart.
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DNA analysis helps identify
remains of WWII veteran shot down during bombing mission
To identify Pezzella's remains, scientists
from Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency used
anthropological analysis. In addition, scientists from
the ...
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DNA analysis helps identify
remains of World War II Newton veteran shot down in bombing raid
To identify Pezzella's remains,
Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency
scientists used anthropological analysis. In
addition, scientists at the Armed ...
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Vietnam Wall Run set for
September 15-16 | Perryville Republic Monitor
This FREE veterans statewide
motorcycle event will be held on Friday - National
POW/MIA Recognition Day - and
Saturday, September 15 and 16 and ...
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WWII soldier whose remains
returned being laid to rest in Mount Olive - Jacksonville
Journal-Courier
Last month, the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency said the remains of Army Sgt. John
W. Radanovich, 23, of Mount Olive have been
accounted for ...
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Number of special balloons
scheduled to entertain at next weekend's Centralia Balloon Fest
Another meaningful balloon is the
POW / MIA Veterans Freedom Flight balloon
sponsored by American Legion Post 446 with Veterans
Foreign Wars Post ...
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Chicago WWII soldier's
remains identified decades later
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced Thursday that
Army Air Forces Sgt. Willard S. Kendall, 23, was
killed in 1944 during an air ...
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Airman Accounted for from World
War II (Pezzella, A.)
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting
Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Army Air Forces 1st
Lt. Alfred W. Pezzella, 27, of Newton, Massachusetts, ...
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Missing local soldier accounted
for from Korean War | News - Clearfield Progress
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting
Agency announced Wednesday that U.S. Army Cpl. Francis James
Jury, 23, of LeContes Mills, who was killed during the ...
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Airman Accounted for from
World War II (Kendall, W.)
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that Army
Air Forces Sgt. Willard S. Kendall, 23, of Chicago,
Illinois, killed during ...
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Funeral, burial set
Saturday in Mount Olive for WWII soldier - Alton Telegraph
Last month the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced that Army Sgt.
John W. Radanovich, 23, of Mount Olive, had been
accounted for ...
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From: DPAA
NCR OC Mailbox Public Affairs <dpaa.ncr.oc.mbx.public-affairs@mail.mil>
Greetings, U.S. Army Cpl. Francis Jury was accounted for last week and his family received their full briefing on his identification. Please see the official release below, and attached. --------------- The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that Army Cpl. Francis James Jury, 23, of Clearfield, Pennsylvania, killed during the Korean War, was accounted for Feb. 10, 2022.
In late 1950, Cpl. Jury was a member of Heavy Mortar Company, 32nd Infantry Regiment, 7th Infantry Division. He was reported missing in action on Dec. 2, 1950, during battle with enemy forces near the Chosin Reservoir, North Korea. Following the battle, his remains could not be recovered, and there is no evidence that he was ever a prisoner of war.
On July 27, 2018, following the summit between President Donald Trump and North Korean Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un in June 2018, North Korea turned over 55 boxes, purported to contain the remains of American service members killed during the Korean War. The remains arrived at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii on Aug. 1, 2018, and were subsequently accessioned into the DPAA laboratory for identification.
To identify Cpl. Jury’s remains, scientists from DPAA used anthropological analysis, as well as circumstantial evidence. Additionally, scientists from the Armed Forces Medical Examiner System used Y chromosome DNA (Y-STR) analysis.
Cpl. Jury’s name is recorded on the American Battle Monuments Commission’s Courts of the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in Honolulu, along with the others who are still missing from the Korean War. A rosette will be placed next to his name to indicate he has been accounted-for.
Cpl. Jury will be buried at Annville, Pennsylvania, on a date to be determined.
For family and funeral information, contact the Army Casualty Office at (800) 892-2490.
To see the most up-to-date statistics on DPAA recovery efforts for those unaccounted-for from the Korean War, go to the Korean War fact sheet on the DPAA website at: https://www.dpaa.mil/Resources/Fact-Sheets/Article-View/Article/569610/progress-on-korean-war-personnel-accounting/
For additional information on the Defense Department’s mission to account for Americans who went missing while serving our country, visit the DPAA website at www.dpaa.mil, or find us on social media at www.facebook.com/dodpaa or https://www.linkedin.com/company/defense-pow-mia-accounting-agency.
Cpl. Jury’s personnel profile can be viewed at https://dpaa-mil.sites.crmforce.mil/dpaaProfile?id=a0Jt000000b8cs5EAA. |
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From: DPAA
NCR OC Mailbox Public Affairs <dpaa.ncr.oc.mbx.public-affairs@mail.mil>
Greetings, U.S. Army Air Force 1st Lt. Alfred Pezzella was accounted for last week and his family received their full briefing on his identification. Please see the official release below, and attached.
--------------- The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Army Air Forces 1st Lt. Alfred W. Pezzella, 27, of Newton, Massachusetts, killed during World War II, was accounted for April 6, 2023. In the summer of 1943, Pezzella was assigned to 328th Bombardment Squadron (Heavy), 93d Bombardment Group (Heavy), 9th Air Force. On Aug. 1, 1943, the B-24 Liberator bomber on which Pezzella was serving as the bombardier was hit by enemy anti-aircraft fire and crashed during Operation TIDAL WAVE, the largest bombing mission against the oil fields and refineries at Ploiesti, north of Bucharest, Romania. His remains were not identified following the war. The remains that could not be identified were buried as Unknowns in the Hero Section of the Civilian and Military Cemetery of Bolovan, Ploiesti, Prahova, Romania. Following the war, the American Graves Registration Command (AGRC), the organization that searched for and recovered fallen American personnel, disinterred all American remains from the Bolovan Cemetery for identification. The AGRC was unable to identify more than 80 unknowns from Bolovan Cemetery, and those remains were permanently interred at Ardennes American Cemetery and Henri-Chapelle American Cemetery, both in Belgium. In 2017, DPAA began exhuming unknowns believed to be associated with unaccounted-for airmen from Operation TIDAL WAVE losses. These remains were sent to the DPAA Laboratory for examination and identification. To identify Pezzella’s remains, scientists from DPAA used anthropological analysis. Additionally, scientists from the Armed Forces Medical Examiner System used mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) analysis. Pezzella’s name is recorded on the on the Tablets of the Missing at Florence American Cemetery, an American Battle Monuments Commission site in Impruneta, Italy, along with others still missing from WWII. A rosette will be placed next to his name to indicate he has been accounted for. Pezzella will be buried in Bourne, Massachusetts, on a date to be determined. For family and funeral information, contact the Army Casualty Office at (800) 892-2490. DPAA is grateful to the American Battle Monuments Commission and to the U.S. Army Regional Mortuary-Europe/Africa for their partnership in this mission. For additional information on the Defense Department’s mission to account for Americans who went missing while serving our country, visit the DPAA website at www.dpaa.mil or find us on social media at www.facebook.com/dodpaa or https://www.linkedin.com/company/defense-pow-mia-accounting-agency. Pezzella’s personnel profile can be viewed at https://dpaa-mil.sites.crmforce.mil/dpaaProfile?id=a0Jt0000000Xe8ZEAS. |
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2024
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Remains of missing US
soldier from Korean War to be buried in Georgia | Stars and
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(Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency) ... “Four POWs returned during
Operation Big Switch reported Rewis had been a
prisoner of war and died in ...
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Wounded Warrior head set to retire in
early 2024 - Yahoo News
Prior to serving as the head of the Wounded Warrior
Project, Linnington was the first permanent director
of the Defense POW/MIA Accounting
Agency ...
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Pennsylvania Korean War
solider now accounted for - ABC27
The Defense Prisoner of War (POW)
and Missing in Action (MIA) Agency (DPAA) has
announced that a Pennsylvania soldier who died
during the Korean ...
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Remains of Local Soldier
Now Accounted for from Korean War - GantNews.com
WASHINGTON – The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that Army
Cpl. Francis James Jury, 23, of Clearfield
County—who was ...
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Remains of Clearfield
Korean War veteran accounted for; recovery part of 2018 summit
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According to a release from the
Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, the
remains of Army Cpl. Francis James Jury have been
returned to the United ...
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Pa. soldier killed during
the Korean War identified, coming home for burial - pennlive.com
The remains of Cpl. Francis Jury of
Clearfield, Pa., who was killed during the Korean
War, have been identified, according to the Defense
POW/MIA ...
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Horrific new footage from the frontlines of Ukraine appears to show the moment Russian soldiers forced a testimony from a Ukrainian PoW after threatening him with an axe and pushing the barrel of an assault rifle into his ear. At least three Russian soldiers or mercenaries are seen demanding that the captive reveal positions of his Kyiv troop comrades at the frontline. Russian pro-war channels published the sickening video which, if confirmed as authentic, would constitute evidence of war crimes, flouting the Geneva Convention on the Treatment of Prisoners of War. One claimed: 'This is how [Ukrainian] POWs are broken.' The appalling incident is believed to have happened on Sunday, possibly near the village of Novoselivka, Luhansk region, north of Svatovo... |
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Army Sgt. Aiken, a B-29
Superfortress crewmember, accounted for from WWII - Audacy
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced in July that U.S.
Army Air Forces Sgt. Donal C. Aiken, 22, of Everett,
Washington, ...
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U.S. won't invoke POW
status for soldier who fled to North Korea - The Japan Times
In your social network ...
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platform of choice. Facebook. In your inbox. Get
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A 73-year-old mystery over a
missing soldier reaches haunting end at NC cemetery - Yahoo News
The remains of Army Corporal Rex Powell
of Valdese NC were identified after being disinterred
from the cemetery and analyzed at a Defense POW/MIA ...
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Korean War POW who
disappeared returned to family 73 years later in 'miracle' - NWI
Times
A historian and forensic anthropologist
determined the remains might be Garcia so they were sent
to a Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency
Laboratory ...
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Veterans column: Marine Pvt.
Paul Emmett Luther, of Licking Twp, listed as MIA in Guam
Even though he was presumed dead, he is
officially listed with the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency as missing in action on Guam in July
1944.
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Remains of Macoupin County WWII
soldier, unaccounted for for nearly 80 years, arrive home
While studying unresolved American losses
in the Hürtgen Forest, a historian with the Defense
POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) determined
that one ...
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Man who killed real
American sniper Chris Kyle explains why he did it in chilling
confession tape
Kyle - a former Navy SEAL who
came to global attention as the author of the
bestselling autobiography American Sniper - along
with his friend ...
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Gen. Lindsay, former leader
of airborne and special operations, dies at 90 - The
Fayetteville Observer
James Lindsay, whose nearly four
decades of distinguished service in the ... In the
citation for the Distinguished Service Cross,
he was heralded ...
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U.S. won't invoke POW
status for soldier who fled to North Korea - The Japan Times
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Veteran of the Day U.S.
Marine Corps Veteran Robert L. Zehetner - Aerotech News
In 2018, the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA) was able to identify
Zehetner through DNA sent in by his sister, who was
still alive.
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Airman Accounted for from
WWII (Miklosh, W.)
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S.
Army Air Forces 2nd Lt. Walter B. Miklosh, 21, of
Chicago, Illinois, ...
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WWII soldier's remains
identified and to be buried in Illinois - FOX 2
Becker & Sons Funeral Home in Mount
Olive will hold services at the grave before the
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From: DPAA NCR OC
Mailbox Public Affairs <dpaa.ncr.oc.mbx.public-affairs@mail.mil>
Sent: 4 August, 2023 10:11
Subject: DPAA News Release - Illinois Airman Accounted for from
WWII
Greetings,
2nd Lt. Miklosh was accounted for in May, but his family only recently received their full briefing on his identification, which is why this release is going out now.
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The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Army Air Forces 2nd Lt. Walter B. Miklosh, 21, of Chicago, Illinois, killed during World War II, was accounted for May 5, 2023.
In the summer of 1944, Miklosh was assigned to the 678th Bombardment Squadron, 444th Bombardment Group (Very Heavy), 58th Bombardment Wing, Twentieth Bomber Command. On June 26, Miklosh while serving as a navigator on a B-29 Superfortress crashed into a rice paddy in the village of Sapekhati, India after a bombing raid on Imperial iron and steel works at Yawata, Kyushu Island, Japan. All 11 crew members were killed instantly in the crash.
On June 28, 1944 a team from 342nd Service Squadron, 329th Service Group visited the crash site recovering and identifying only seven sets of remains which were interred at in United States Military Cemetery in Panitola, Assam, India and subsequently disinterred and sent to their final internment on Jan. 13, 1948.
In September 1948 the American Graves Registration Command (AGRC), investigation team searched the area of the crash site, but they did not discover any remains associated with Miklosh. He was declared non-recoverable Jan. 2, 1948.
In October 2014 the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command (a DPAA predecessor organization) conducted a Joint Field Activity in Sapekhati, which led to the location of the crash site and the recovery of life support equipment and wreckage associated with the B29 aircraft. In 2018 and 2019, Southeastern Archaeological Research (SEARCH) a DPAA partner organization excavated the site and recovered possible osseous remains and material evidence.
To identify Miklosh’s remains, scientists from DPAA used material evidence. Additionally, scientists from the Armed Forces Medical Examiner System used Y chromosome (Y-STR), analysis.
Miklosh will be buried in Sierra Vista, Arizona, on a date to be determined.
For family and funeral information, contact the Army Casualty Office at (800) 892-2490.
For additional information on the Defense Department’s mission to account for Americans who went missing while serving our country, visit the DPAA website at www.dpaa.mil or find us on social media at www.facebook.com/dodpaa or https://www.linkedin.com/company/defense-pow-mia-accounting-agency.
Miklosh’s personnel profile can be viewed at: https://dpaa-mil.sites.crmforce.mil/dpaaProfile?id=a0Jt0000000XmBZEA0
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Texas Airman Accounted for from
WWII - The Katy News
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Army
Air Forces Tech Sgt. Elton L. Gomillion, 22, of Iola,
Texas, ...
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Sgt. Radanovich Will Be
Returned To Mt. Olive | The Journal-News
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced that U.S. Army
Sergeant John W. Radanovich, 23, of Mt. Olive,
reported missing during World ...
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Barrow prepares to pay
tribute to a fallen hero - mainstreetnews.com
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA) made the long-awaited
announcement on Wednesday, confirming that Sgt.
Wilkinson, a Barrow native, ...
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https://www.military.com/daily-news/2023/07/31/veterans-congress-press-bowe-bergdahl-be-retried-after-sentenced-was-dismissed.html?ESRC=eb_230801.nl&utm_medium=email&utm_source=eb&utm_campaign=20230801 Veterans in Congress Press for Bowe Bergdahl to Be Retried After Sentenced Was Dismissed Five House Republicans wrote Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and Attorney General Merrick Garland protesting a judge's decision to vacate the former soldier's sentence. |
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Airman Accounted For From
World War II (Jones, W.)
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S.
Army Air Forces Staff Sgt. Wesley L. Jones, 22, of
Wichita, Kansas, ...
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Airman Accounted for from WWII
(Gomillion, E.)
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Army Air
Forces Tech Sgt. Elton L. Gomillion, 22, of Lola, Texas, ...
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Sailor from Grays Harbor
County who died during the Pearl Harbor attack to be buried at
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Then, in 2015, the defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency personnel exhumed the remains of
the unidentified sailors for further analysis.
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Remains of World War II Soldier
to be buried in Williamsport, Indiana - DVIDS
In 2017, the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency began exhuming unknowns believed to be
associated with unaccounted-for Soldiers from Operation ...
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Triplett WWII B-24
Liberator radio operator accounted for - Audacy
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced in July that Army
Air Forces Tech. Sgt. James M. Triplett, 36, of
Spokane, Washington, ...
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From: DPAA NCR OC
Mailbox Public Affairs <dpaa.ncr.oc.mbx.public-affairs@mail.mil>
Sent: 1 August, 2023 13:31
Subject: DPAA News Release - Kansas Airman Recovered from WWII
Greetings,
U.S. Army Air Forces Staff Sgt. Wesley Jones was accounted for in March, but his family only recently received their full briefing on his identification, which is why this release is going out now.
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The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Army Air Forces Staff Sgt. Wesley L. Jones, 22, of Wichita, Kansas, killed during World War II, was accounted for March 16, 2023.
In the summer of 1943, Jones was assigned to the 345th Bombardment Squadron (Heavy), 98th Bombardment Group (Heavy), 9th Air Force. On Aug. 1, 1943, the B-24 Liberator bomber on which Jones was the gunner was hit by enemy anti-aircraft fire and crashed during Operation TIDAL WAVE, the largest bombing mission against the oil fields and refineries at Ploiesti, north of Bucharest, Romania. His remains were not identified following the war. The remains that could not be identified were buried as Unknowns in the Hero Section of the Civilian and Military Cemetery of Bolovan, Ploiesti, Prahova, Romania.
Following the war, the American Graves Registration Command (AGRC), the organization that searched for and recovered fallen American personnel, disinterred all American remains from the Bolovan Cemetery for identification. The AGRC was unable to identify more than 80 unknowns from Bolovan Cemetery, and those remains were permanently interred at Ardennes American Cemetery and Henri-Chapelle American Cemetery, both in Belgium.
In 2017, DPAA began exhuming unknowns believed to be associated with unaccounted-for airmen from Operation TIDAL WAVE losses. These remains were sent to the DPAA Laboratory at Offutt Air Force Base, Nebraska, for examination and identification.
To identify Jones’ remains, scientists from DPAA used dental and anthropological analysis, as well as chest radiograph comparison and circumstantial evidence. Additionally, scientists from the Armed Forces Medical Examiner System used mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) analysis.
Jones’ name is recorded on the Tablets of the Missing at the Florence American Cemetery, an American Battle Monuments Commission site in Impruneta, Italy, along with others still missing from WWII. A rosette will be placed next to his name to indicate he has been accounted for.
Jones will be buried in Wichita, Kansas, on a date to be determined.
For family and funeral information, contact the Army Casualty Office at (800) 892-2490.
DPAA is grateful to the American Battle Monuments Commission and to the U.S. Army Regional Mortuary-Europe/Africa for their partnership in this mission.
For additional information on the Defense Department’s mission to account for Americans who went missing while serving our country, visit the DPAA website at www.dpaa.mil or find us on social media at www.facebook.com/dodpaa or https://www.linkedin.com/company/defense-pow-mia-accounting-agency.
Jones’ personnel profile can be viewed at https://dpaa-mil.sites.crmforce.mil/dpaaProfile?id=a0Jt00000004pK1EAI
From:
DPAA NCR OC Mailbox Public Affairs <dpaa.ncr.oc.mbx.public-affairs@mail.mil>
Sent: 31 July, 2023 14:35
Subject: DPAA News Release - Texas Airman Accounted for from WWII
Greetings,
Tech Sgt. Elton Gomillion was accounted for in March, but his family only recently received their full briefing on his identification, which is why this release is going out now.
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The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Army Air Forces Tech Sgt. Elton L. Gomillion, 22, of Lola, Texas, killed during World War II, was accounted for March 30, 2023.
In the summer of 1943, Gomillion was assigned to the 409th Bombardment Squadron (Heavy), 93rd Bombardment Group (Heavy), 9th Air Force. On Aug. 1, 1943, the B-24 Liberator bomber on which Gomillion was the engineer was hit by enemy anti-aircraft fire and crashed during Operation TIDAL WAVE, the largest bombing mission against the oil fields and refineries at Ploiesti, north of Bucharest, Romania. His remains were not identified following the war. The remains that could not be identified were buried as Unknowns in the Hero Section of the Civilian and Military Cemetery of Bolovan, Ploiesti, Prahova, Romania.
Following the war, the American Graves Registration Command (AGRC), the organization that searched for and recovered fallen American personnel, disinterred all American remains from the Bolovan Cemetery for identification. The AGRC was unable to identify more than 80 unknowns from Bolovan Cemetery, and those remains were permanently interred at Ardennes American Cemetery and Henri-Chapelle American Cemetery, both in Belgium.
In 2017, DPAA began exhuming unknowns believed to be associated with unaccounted-for airmen from Operation TIDAL WAVE losses. These remains were sent to the DPAA Laboratory for examination and identification.
To identify Gomillion’s remains, scientists from DPAA used anthropological analysis. Additionally, scientists from the Armed Forces Medical Examiner System used mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) and autosomal DNA (auSTR) analysis.
Gomillion’s name is recorded on the Tablets of the Missing at Florence American Cemetery, an American Battle Monuments Commission site in Impruneta, Italy, along with others still missing from WWII. A rosette will be placed next to his name to indicate he has been accounted for.
Gomillion will be buried in Lola, Texas, on September 12, 2023.
For family and funeral information, contact the Army Casualty Office at (800) 892-2490.
DPAA is grateful to the American Battle Monuments Commission and to the U.S. Army Regional Mortuary-Europe/Africa for their partnership in this mission.
For additional information on the Defense Department’s mission to account for Americans who went missing while serving our country, visit the DPAA website at www.dpaa.mil or find us on social media at www.facebook.com/dodpaa or https://www.linkedin.com/company/defense-pow-mia-accounting-agency.
Gomillion’s personnel profile can be viewed at https://dpaa-mil.sites.crmforce.mil/dpaaProfile?id=a0Jt0000000XexkEAC.
Remains of WWII veteran killed
in Romania identified, laid to rest - FOX19
Reuter's remains were identified January
10, 2023 by the Defense POW/MIA Accounting
Agency. After the war, many airmen were interred by
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73 years after SC soldier was
declared dead, his remains are identified - The State
His remains were identified this
year/ Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency
provided. Albert Gosnell was fresh out of Greenville High
School when he ...
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Missing WWII veteran laid
to rest in North Olmsted cemetery - Cleveland 19 News
On January 10, 2023, the Defense
POW/MIA Accounting Agency identified the
missing remains of the Lieutenant. Many airmen were
interred by Romanian ...
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Sean Kirst: For WNY family
of missing Korean War soldier, a vigil that does not end -
Buffalo News
A POW/MIA flag hangs
beneath an American flag, above their driveway. A
photo of Mathers, surrounded by his medals, commands
an entire wall in ...
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Aberdeen sailor's burial
slated for Tahoma National Cemetery - Peninsula Daily News
As the remains of servicemembers were
recovered from the vessel, they were transferred to
the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency
laboratory on ...
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This State Has the Most
Medal of Honor Recipients: All 50 States Ranked - 24/7 Wall
St.
The Medal of Honor was not
awarded in the time of the Revolutionary War when
the Union began. It was first introduced by the Navy
in 1861, ...
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Medal of Honor
sailor from Ohio accounted for from World War II
... 20, of Springfield, Ohio, killed
during World War II, and posthumously awarded the
Medal of Honor, was accounted for on Aug. 19,
2021.
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Medal of Honor sailor from Ohio
accounted for from World War II
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced last week that Navy
Seaman 1st Class James R. Ward, 20, of Springfield, Ohio,
killed during ...
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Remains turned over after
Trump-Kim summit found to be Wisconsin man - WMTV
Army Cpl. Donald “Donny” L. DuPont
went missing in Dec. 1950 during the Battle of the
Chosin Reservoir, according to the Defense POW-MIA
Accounting ...
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United States Korean War
veteran lost in 1950 Sangju defense is identified - 9&10 News
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced Friday that U.S.
Army Pfc. James L. Miller, 21, of Detroit, Michigan,
killed during the ...
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South Carolina: Greenville
soldier accounted for from Korean War - WYFF
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency announced Thursday that Gosnell's
remains were accounted for on May 15. In July 1950,
Gosnell was a member of ...
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Wisconsin soldier returned
home after being killed, MIA in Korean War - WSAW
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency has announced that Army Cpl.
Donald “Donny” L. DuPont, 22, of Alma Center,
Wisconsin, killed during the ...
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Jackson County man who died
in Korean War has remains identified; will be laid to rest in
August
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA) said in a press release
Friday that DePont was reported missing in action
during battle with enemy ...
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Palmer man, killed in
action in Korea, is finally coming home - The Mining Journal
McCarthy, 20, of Palmer, killed in
1950 during the Korean War. The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency has confirmed that remains turned
over to U.S. ...
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From: DPAA NCR OC Mailbox Public
Affairs <dpaa.ncr.oc.mbx.public-affairs@mail.mil>
Sent: 28 July, 2023 12:31
Subject: DPAA News Release - Michigan Soldier Accounted
for from Korean War
Greetings,
U.S. Army Pfc. James Miller was accounted for in November 2022, but his family only recently received their full briefing on his identification, which is why this release is going out now.
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The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Army Pfc. James L. Miller, 21, of Detroit, Michigan, killed during the Korean War, was accounted for Nov. 28, 2022.
In late 1950, Miller was a member of K Company, 3rd Battalion, 24th Infantry Regiment, 25th Infantry Division. Miller and the 24th Infantry Regiment took part in the unsuccessful defense of the town of Sangju in July 1950. He was reported killed in action on July 30, while fighting with the North Korean forces. Following the battle, his remains could not be recovered, and there is no evidence that he was ever a prisoner of war. Miller was declared nonrecoverable on Jan. 16, 1956.
After regaining control of Sanju in the fall of 1950, the Army began recovering remains from the area and temporarily interring them at the United Nations Military Cemetery (UNMC) Taejon. One set of remains recovered during this period was designated Unknown X-5156. After extensive analysis by the Central Identification Unit-Kokura in Japan was unable to identify X-5156, the remains were declared unidentifiable. They were later sent to Hawaii where they were buried at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, known as the Punchbowl, in Honolulu, with other Korean War Unknowns.
In July 2018, the DPAA proposed a plan to disinter 652 Korean War Unknowns from the Punchbowl. On Nov. 4, 2019, the DPAA disinterred Unknown X-5156 as part of Phase Two of the Korean War Disinterment Project and sent the remains to the DPAA laboratory at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii, for analysis.
To identify Miller’s remains, scientists from DPAA used dental, anthropological analysis as well as chest radiograph comparison.. Additionally, scientists from the Armed Forces Medical Examiner System used mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) analysis.
Miller’s name is recorded on the American Battle Monuments Commission’s Courts of the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in Honolulu, along with the others who are still missing from the Korean War. A rosette will be placed next to his name to indicate he has been accounted for.
Miller will be buried in Holly, Michigan, on a date to be determined.
For family and funeral information, contact the Army Casualty Office at (800) 892-2490.
To see the most up-to-date statistics on DPAA recovery efforts for those unaccounted for from the Korean War, go to the Korean War Accounting page on the DPAA website at: https://dpaa-mil.sites.crmforce.mil/dpaaFamWebKorean.
For additional information on the Defense Department’s mission to account for Americans who went missing while serving our country, visit the DPAA website at www.dpaa.mil, or find us on social media at www.facebook.com/dodpaa or https://www.linkedin.com/company/defense-pow-mia-accounting-agency.
Miller’s personnel profile can be viewed at https://dpaa-mil.sites.crmforce.mil/dpaaProfile?id=a0Jt000000nsBi7EAE.
From:
DPAA NCR OC Mailbox Public Affairs <dpaa.ncr.oc.mbx.public-affairs@mail.mil>
Sent: 28 July, 2023 11:08
Subject: DPAA News Release - Wisconsin Soldier Accounted for from
Korean War
Greetings,
U.S. Army Corporal “Donny” DuPont was accounted for in January, but his family only recently received their full briefing on his identification, which is why this release is going out now.
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The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that Army Cpl. Donald “Donny” L. DuPont, 22, of Alma Center, Wisconsin, killed during the Korean War, was accounted for Jan. 24, 2023.
In late 1950, DuPont was a member of B Company, 1st Battalion, 32nd Infantry Regiment, 7th Infantry Division. He was reported missing in action on Dec. 2, 1950, during battle with enemy forces near the Chosin Reservoir, North Korea. Following the battle, his remains could not be recovered, and there is no evidence that he was never a prisoner of war.
On July 27, 2018, following the summit between President Donald Trump and North Korean Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un in June 2018, North Korea turned over 55 boxes, purported to contain the remains of American service members killed during the Korean War. The remains arrived at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii on Aug. 1, 2018, and were subsequently accessioned into the DPAA laboratory for identification.
To identify DuPont’s remains, scientists from DPAA used anthropological and isotope analysis. Additionally, scientists from the Armed Forces Medical Examiner System used mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA), and autosomal DNA (auSTR ) analysis.
DuPont’s name is recorded on the American Battle Monuments Commission’s Courts of the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in Honolulu, along with the others who are still missing from the Korean War. A rosette will be placed next to his name to indicate he has been accounted for.
DuPont will be buried in Fairchild, Wisconsin, on August 23, 2023
For family and funeral information, contact the Army Casualty Office at (800) 892-2490.
To see the most up-to-date statistics on DPAA recovery efforts for those unaccounted for from the Korean War, go to the Korean War fact sheet on the DPAA website at: https://www.dpaa.mil/Resources/Fact-Sheets/Article-View/Article/569610/progress-on-korean-war-personnel-accounting/
For additional information on the Defense Department’s mission to account for Americans who went missing while serving our country, visit the DPAA website at www.dpaa.mil, or find us on social media at www.facebook.com/dodpaa or https://www.linkedin.com/company/defense-pow-mia-accounting-agency.
DuPont’s personnel profile can be viewed at https://dpaa-mil.sites.crmforce.mil/dpaaProfile?id=a0Jt000000ceK72EAE.
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DPAA and ROK Host Repatriation
Ceremony - Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA) held a repatriation ceremony at
Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii, June 25, 2023.
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Defense Dept IDs Georgia
solider killed in Korea - WGAU
... soldier killed during the Korean War
has officially been identified as a Georgia native,
according to the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency.
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Missouri Veterans Commission
honors Korean War veterans for 70th anniversary of the Armistice
During the event, there was a posting of
the colors, a POW/MIA (prisoner of
war/missing in action) remembrance and pinning ceremony.
“Anytime we can ...
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VFW Honors and Remembers Korean
War Veterans
In recent months, the Defense
POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) has announced
that five soldiers of the Korean War have been accounted for
so far ...
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The Korean War veterans who
never came home - The Washington Post
(Sgt. 1st Class David
Marshall/Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency).
Listen. 8 min. Comment0. Gift Article. Share. The mission
came with hope and ...
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Remains of Greenville
soldier killed in Korean War identified - WSPA
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency said Gosnell will be buried in
Anderson at a later date. Copyright 2023 Nexstar
Media Inc. All rights reserved.
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Remains of Korean War
soldier from Greenville identified over 70 years later - WACH
(U.S. Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency). Army officials attempted to
identify the soldier after regaining control of
Taejon in the fall of 1950, ...
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Remains of Korean War
soldier from Greenville identified over 70 years later - WCIV
(U.S. Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency). Facebook Share Icon Twitter
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Remains of World War II
soldier to be buried in Williamsport | Local News | tribstar.com
His remains were identified in May by
the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency.
The remains of U.S. Army Air Forces solider killed
in World War II ...
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DNA test helps identify body of
missing Georgia Korean War soldier - FOX 5 Atlanta
U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class James
L. Wilkinso (Defense POW/MIA Accounting
Agency). BOWDON, Ga. - DNA analysis has helped scientists
identify the ...
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Soldier Accounted for From
Korean War (Gosnell, A.)
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S.
Army Pfc. Albert A. Gosnell 18, of Greenville, South
Carolina, ...
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Army Pvt. Hom killed in
WWII as a POW has been accounted for - Audacy
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced earlier in July
that U.S. Army Pvt. Wing O. Hom, 20, of Boston,
Massachusetts, missing in ...
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Remains of Marquette County
soldier killed in North Korea identified - WNMU-FM
... Hawaii on August 1st,
2018, and were subsequently accessioned into the
Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA)
laboratory for identification.
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Remains of WWII soldier to
be buried in Indiana - WTHR
In 2017, the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency began working to identify unknowns
from Operation TIDAL WAVE. Using DNA, the remains of
Reitz were ...
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Palmer veteran identified
in remains from Korean War | WJMN - UPMatters.com
On Wednesday, The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA) answered one of those
questions, by identifying the remains of Army Cpl.
Gordon D.
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Korean War veteran James
Wilkinson identified, coming home to Georgia - WUGA
... who was 19 at the time of his
death, was identified as part of an effort by the
U.S. Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency
which used DNA analysis ...
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Georgia vet killed in
Korean War now accounted for, will be buried in Barrow County -
11Alive.com
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA) made the announcement
Wednesday. They said the burial for Wilkinson - who
was just 19 when he was ...
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New 1st Cav memorials honor
wartime history | News | cavazossentinel.com
These POWs and MIA endure
imprisonment in enemy camps, often for extended ...
The helicopter provides an over watch for the POW/MIA
memorial, ...
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Michigan soldier who died in
Korea to be buried at Arlington National Cemetery - WWMT
(Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency). Facebook Share Icon Twitter Share Icon
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South Korean POWs still held
in NK, 70 years after armistice - Asia News Network
South Korean POWs still
held in NK, 70 years after armistice Asia News Network
(ANN) is the leading regional alliance of news titles
striving to ...
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Soldier vanished during
Korean War. 70 years later, remains will return home to Georgia
Army Sgt. 1st Class James L.
Wilkinson, of Bowden, was accounted for Dec. 5,
2022, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting
Agency announced July 26 in ...
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MIA
Korean War soldier identified as Palmer man - The Mining Journal
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency announced on Wednesday that the
remains of Army Cpl. Gordon D. McCarthy, 20, of
Palmer, ...
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DNA test helps identify
body of Korean War soldier from Georgia - Army Times
U.S. service members assigned to the
Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency
participate in a disinterment ceremony held at the
National Memorial ...
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Subject: The Nazis had camps
on British soil, but the death toll remains unknown
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Remains of U.P. soldier
killed more than 70 years ago identified by POW/MIA
agency
Gordon D. McCarthy of Palmer,
Michigan have been identified 73 years after he was
killed during the Korean War. The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency ...
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Soldier vanished during
Korean War. 70 years later, remains will return home to Georgia
Army Sgt. 1st Class James L.
Wilkinson, of Bowden, was accounted for on Dec. 5,
2022, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting
Agency announced July 26 ...
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DNA test helps identify
body of Korean War soldier from Georgia - WRAL.com
Wilkinson late last year, the Defense
POW/MIA Accounting agency said in a
news release. Wilkinson was from Bowdon, a town near
the Georgia-Alabama ...
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DNA test helps identify
body of Korean War soldier from Georgia | Federal News Network
... the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting agency said in a news release. Wilkinson
was from Bowdon, a town near the Georgia-Alabama
state line about.
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Soldier Accounted For From
Korean War (McCarthy, G.)
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that Army
Cpl. Gordon D. McCarthy, 20, Palmer, Michigan,
killed during the Korean War ...
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'Hometown Heroes' visit
Dane County Fair | Community | stoughtonnews.com
Stoughton American Legion Post 59 3rd
Vice-commander Ken Schieldt raises the POW/MIA
flag during the “Hometown Hero Day” ceremony. Tim
Erickson photo.
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Korean War veteran
identified as Georgia resident after 70 years - WSB-TV
— An American soldier killed during
the Korean War has officially been identified as a
Georgia native, according to the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting ...
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Soldier Accounted For From
Korean War ( Wilkinson, J.)
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S.
Army Sgt. 1st Class James L. Wilkinson, 19, of
Bowden, Georgia, ...
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Body of Georgia soldier
missing in Korean War identified 7 decades later
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency announced that it identified James
Wilkinson, a soldier from Georgia who went missing
during the Korean War.
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Decades of mystery
resolved: Georgia soldier killed in Korean War finally accounted
for
(WGXA) - The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA) has made a significant
announcement, bringing closure to a family after
nearly seven decades.
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DPAA and ROK Host
Repatriation Ceremony - DVIDS
HONOLULU, July 25, 2023 -- The
Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA)
held a repatriation ceremony at Joint Base Pearl
Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii, ...
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DNA test helps identify
body of Korean War soldier from Georgia - AP News
... other tools to identify Army Sgt.
1st Class James L. Wilkinson late last year, the
Defense POW/MIA Accounting agency said
in a news release.
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Michigan soldier who died
in Korea to be buried at Arlington National Cemetery - WWMT
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency announced on Wednesday that Army
Cpl. Gordon D. McCarthy, of Palmer, Michigan, was
accounted for on Feb.
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Body of Georgia soldier
missing in Korean War identified 7 decades later - KNOP
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency announced on Wednesday that
Wilkinson, who was a first sergeant in the U.S.
Army, was accounted for on Dec. 5.
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Body of Georgia soldier
missing in Korean War identified 7 decades later - WNDU
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency announced on Wednesday that
Wilkinson, who was a first sergeant in the U.S.
Army, was accounted for on Dec.
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return of a Los
Angeles-based attorney who has been held in
Venezuela for more than a year after making a wrong turn into the
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At 85, Horseheads sculptor is creating dazzling steel, glass art 'until my bones wear out'
One sculpture honors Chaplain
Emil J. Kapaun, a Roman Catholic priest who risked his ...
He was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor in
2018.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ She departed from Mines Field (Los Angeles International Airport) for Palm Springs, on October 26, 1944, flying a North American P-51D Mustang destined for New Jersey. She never arrived at Palm Springs and due to reporting errors a search was not started until three days later. Despite an extensive ground and water search, no trace of Silver or the aircraft were found.[6] Follow up and aftermathIn January 2010, search efforts to locate the possible crash site in Santa Monica Bay were unsuccessful.[4][7][8][9] Also, a TV show known as Expedition Unknown, Season 6, Episode 8, "America's Lost WWII Hero", aired on the Discovery Channel on May 22, 2019. In this episode they searched for Gertrude "Tommy" Tompkins' crash site. Areas searched included the San Jacinto Mountains east of Los Angeles. They also searched the departure corridor off of runway 25 out over the nearby ocean. These searches were unsuccessful.
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A 'meaningful moment':
Remains of South Korean soldiers repatriated in Hawaii ceremony
Through a partnership, the Defense
POW/MIA Accounting Agency and Republic of
Korea's Agency for KIA Recovery used shared
laboratory and historic ...
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Repatriation ceremony held
for Korean soldier | Honolulu Star-Advertiser
A repatriation ceremony with the U.S.
Indo-Pacific Command Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency and the Republic of Korea's
Ministry of National ...
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Macoupin soldier soon will
be home after 80 years - Alton Telegraph
A Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency historian in 2021 determined a set
of unidentified remains recovered at Grosshau and
buried in Ardennes American ...
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Airman Accounted For From
World War II (Aiken, D.)
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S.
Army Air Forces Sgt. Donal C. Aiken, 22, of Everett,
Washington, ...
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Sgt. from Everett missing
since WWII accounted for | News | nbcrightnow.com
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced that Donal C.
Aiken, who was 22 at the time of his death in 1944,
was identified on May 5.
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Dayton airman accounted for
from World War II | The Highland County Press
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced July 17 that U.S.
Army Air Forces 1st Lt. Howard L. Dickson, 30, of
Dayton, killed during ...
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From:
DPAA NCR OC Mailbox Public Affairs <dpaa.ncr.oc.mbx.public-affairs@mail.mil>
Sent: 27 July, 2023 13:40
Subject: DPAA News Release - South Carolina Soldier Accounted for
from Korean War
Greetings -
U.S. Army PFC Albert Gosnell was accounted for in May, but his family only recently received their full briefing on his identification, which is why this release is going out now.
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The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Army Pfc. Albert A. Gosnell 18, of Greenville, South Carolina, who was killed during the Korean War, was accounted for May 15, 2023.
In July 1950, Gosnell was a member of Heavy Mortar Company, 19th Infantry Regiment, 24th Infantry Division. He was reported missing in action after his unit was forced to retreat in the vicinity of Taejon, South Korea, on July 16, 1950. Due to the fighting, his body could not be recovered at that time, and there was never any evidence that he was a prisoner of war. The Army issued a presumptive finding of death on Dec. 31, 1953.
After regaining control of Taejon in the fall of 1950, the Army began recovering remains from the area and temporarily interring them at the United Nations Military Cemetery (UNMC) Taejon. One set of remains recovered during this period was designated Unknown X-274 Taejon. After extensive analysis by the Central Identification Unit-Kokura in Japan was unable to identify X-274, the remains were declared unidentifiable. They were later sent to Hawaii where they were buried at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, known as the Punchbowl, in Honolulu, with other Korean War Unknowns.
In July 2018, the DPAA proposed a plan to disinter 652 Korean War Unknowns from the Punchbowl. In July 2019, DPAA disinterred Unknown X-274 as part of Phase Two of the Korean War Disinterment Project and sent the remains to the DPAA laboratory for analysis.
To identify Gosnell’s remains, scientists from DPAA used dental and anthropological analysis, as well as chest radiograph comparison. Additionally, scientists from the Armed Forces Medical Examiner System used mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) analysis.
Gosnell’s name is recorded on the Courts of the Missing at the Punchbowl, along with the others who are still missing from the Korean War. A rosette will be placed next to his name to indicate he has been accounted for.
Gosnell will be buried in Anderson, South Carolina, on a date to be determined.For family and funeral information, contact the Army Casualty Office at (800) 892-2490.
To see the most up-to-date statistics on DPAA recovery efforts for those unaccounted for from the Korean War, go to the Korean War Accounting page on the DPAA website at: https://dpaa-mil.sites.crmforce.mil/dpaaFamWebKorean.
For additional information on the Defense Department’s mission to account for Americans who went missing while serving our country, visit the DPAA website at www.dpaa.mil, find us on social media at www.facebook.com/dodpaa or https://www.linkedin.com/company/defense-pow-mia-accounting-agency.
Gosnell’s personnel profile can be viewed at https://dpaa-mil.sites.crmforce.mil/dpaaProfile?id=a0Jt000000K6I7wEAF.
| Subject: | New podcast with M Sauter on unrepatriated POW/MIA from the Korean and Cold Wars, from NK News, a well-known news agency focused on North Korea |
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| Date: | Wed, 26 Jul 2023 15:01:51 -0400 |
| From: | markasauter@gmail.com |
| To: | 'Mark' <markasauter@gmail.com> |
The American prisoners of war left behind in North Korea – Ep. 299
Investigative journalist Mark Sauter discusses the soldiers that remain
unaccounted for 70 years after the Korean War
https://www.nknews.org/category/north-korea-news-podcast/older-podcasts/the-american-prisoners-of-war-left-behind-in-north-korea-ep-299/931275/
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26 Jul 2023 Last updated at 16:19
Tags
#foreign-relations#history#military-affairs
This week marks the 70th anniversary of the signing of the Korean War
armistice, a day known as “Victory Day” in North Korea. Chinese and Russian
delegations are traveling to the DPRK to join celebrations for the holiday,
including a likely military parade, and NK News editor Arius Derr talks
about what is likely to take place this week, as well as the case of the
American soldier who illegally crossed the border into the DPRK.
Then, Mark Sauter, president of the POW Investigative Project (PIP), joins
the podcast to discuss his work to uncover the truth about American
prisoners of war that remain unaccounted for after the Korean War and
Washington’s failure to recover soldiers lost behind enemy lines.
Mark Sauter is the founder and president of PIP and author of “American
Trophies.” He has been investigating American POWs for almost 30 years and
previously served as a soldier in the U.S. Army, including as a guard post
commander at the Demilitarized Zone.
About the podcast: The North Korea News Podcast is a weekly podcast hosted
by Jacco Zwetsloot (@JaccoZed) exclusively for NK News, covering all things
DPRK — from news to extended interviews with leading experts and analysts in
the field, along with insight from our very own journalists.
Mark Sauter
202-701-9515
From: DPAA NCR OC
Mailbox Public Affairs <dpaa.ncr.oc.mbx.public-affairs@mail.mil>
Sent: 26 July, 2023 09:41
Subject: DPAA News Release - Georgia Soldier Accounted For From
Korea
Greetings,
Sgt. 1st Class Wilkinson was accounted for in December 2022, but his family only recently received their full briefing on his identification, which is why this release is going out now.
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July 26, 2023
WASHINGTON—The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class James L. Wilkinson, 19, of Bowden, Georgia, who was killed during the Korean War, was accounted for Dec. 5, 2022.
In July 1950, Wilkinson, was a member of G Company, 2nd Battalion, 9th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Infantry Division. He was reported missing in action during fighting along the Naktong River near Yongson, South Korea, on Sept. 8. Due to the fighting, his body could not be recovered at that time, and there was never any evidence that he was a prisoner of war. The Army issued a presumptive finding of death on Dec. 31, 1953.
In July 1951, the Army began recovering remains from the area and temporarily interring them at the United Nations Military Cemetery (UNMC) Tanggok. One set of remains recovered during this period was designated Unknown X-1588. After extensive analysis by the Central Identification Unit-Kokura in Japan was unable to identify X-1588, the remains were declared unidentifiable. They were later sent to Hawaii where they were buried at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, known as the Punchbowl, in Honolulu, with other Korean War Unknowns.
In July 2018, the DPAA proposed a plan to disinter 652 Korean War Unknowns from the Punchbowl. On March 25, 2019, DPAA disinterred Unknown X-1588 as part of Phase Three of the Korean War Disinterment Project and sent the remains to the DPAA laboratory for analysis.
To identify Wilkinson’s remains, scientists from DPAA used dental and anthropological analysis, as well as chest radiograph comparison. Additionally, scientists from the Armed Forces Medical Examiner System used mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) analysis.
Wilkinson’s name is recorded on the Courts of the Missing at the Punchbowl, along with the others who are still missing from the Korean War. A rosette will be placed next to his name to indicate he has been accounted for.
Wilkinson will be buried on Sept. 16, 2023, in Barrow County, Georgia.
For family and funeral information, contact the Army Casualty Office at (800) 892-2490.
To see the most up-to-date statistics on DPAA recovery efforts for those unaccounted for from the Korean War, go to the Korean War Accounting page on the DPAA website at: https://dpaa-mil.sites.crmforce.mil/dpaaFamWebKorean.
For additional information on the Defense Department’s mission to account for Americans who went missing while serving our country, visit the DPAA website at www.dpaa.mil, find us on social media at www.facebook.com/dodpaa or https://www.linkedin.com/company/defense-pow-mia-accounting-agency.
Wilkinson’s personnel profile can be viewed: https://dpaa-mil.sites.crmforce.mil/dpaaProfile?id=a0Jt00000153rczEAA.
From: DPAA NCR OC
Mailbox Public Affairs <dpaa.ncr.oc.mbx.public-affairs@mail.mil>
Sent: 26 July, 2023 10:28
Subject: DPAA News Release - Michigan Soldier Accounted For From
Korea
Greetings,
Cpl. McCarthy was accounted for in February, but his family only recently received their full briefing on his identification, which is why this release is going out now.
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July 26, 2023
WASHINGTON—The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that Army Cpl. Gordon D. McCarthy, 20, Palmer, Michigan, killed during the Korean War, was accounted for Feb. 13, 2023.
In late 1950, McCarthy was a member of Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 1st Battalion, 32nd Infantry Regiment, 7th Infantry Division. He was reported missing in action on Dec. 2, 1950, when his unit was attacked by enemy forces near the Chosin Reservoir, North Korea. Following the battle, his remains could not be recovered.
On July 27, 2018, following the summit between President Donald Trump and North Korean Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un in June 2018, North Korea turned over 55 boxes, purported to contain the remains of American service members killed during the Korean War. The remains arrived at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii on Aug. 1, 2018, and were subsequently accessioned into the DPAA laboratory for identification.
To identify McCarthy’s remains, scientists from DPAA used anthropological analysis, as well as circumstantial evidence. Additionally, scientists from the Armed Forces Medical Examiner System used mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) and Y-chromosome DNA (Y-STR) analysis.
McCarthy’s name is recorded on the Courts of the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in Honolulu, along with the others who are still missing from the Korean War. A rosette will be placed next to his name to indicate he has been accounted for.
McCarthy will be buried in Arlington National Cemetery on date yet to be determined.
For family and funeral information, contact the Army Casualty Office at (800) 892-2490.
To see the most up-to-date statistics on DPAA recovery efforts for those unaccounted for from the Korean War, go to the Korean War fact sheet on the DPAA website at: https://dpaa-mil.sites.crmforce.mil/KoreanWar/PersonnelAccounting.
For additional information on the Defense Department’s mission to account for Americans who went missing while serving our country, visit the DPAA website at www.dpaa.mil, find us on social media at www.facebook.com/dodpaa or call (703) 699-1420/1169.
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Missing WWII soldier's remains
identified nearly 80 years later - Fox News
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced the identification of
the remains of John W. Radanovich, an Illinois soldier
who died in ...
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WWII sailor finally laid to
rest in Railton, Kentucky - WNKY News 40 Television
Mike Edwards over the weekend was one of
the newest Americans of those helped out by the Defense
POW/MIA Accounting Agency, who were able
to ...
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George “Bud” Reuter is home 80
years after giving his life in World War II - WEWS
Lieutenant Reuter's remains were buried
overseas. Six years ago, the “Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency” started exhuming remains of those
believed to ...
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Soldier Accounted For From
World War II (Radanovich, J.)
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Army
Sergeant John W. Radanovich, 23, of Mount Olive,
Illinois, ...
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Why the Korean War matters
| The American Legion
There were 7,140 POWs during the war.
... In addition, according to the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency, as of June 23, 2023, ...
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https://darkhorsepressnow.com/korean-war-pow-mias-remains-will-be-laid-to-rest-today-in-mccomb/
Korean War POW/MIA's
remains will be laid to rest today in McComb.
Therese Apel April 25, 2023. The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency announced ...
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Remains of sailor killed at
Pearl Harbor finally buried near Kentucky home - KIRO 7
According to a news release from
the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, the
remains of Seaman 1st Class Elmer Lawrence, who died on the
USS ...
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IUP archeology students
search for missing remains of World War II soldiers in German
forest
... but has accompanied IUP students
on two previous excavations, which were possible
through the Department of Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency.
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Framingham marks 70th
anniversary of the Korean Armistice Agreement on Thursday
According to the Defense POW/MIA
accounting firm, (DPAA):. There are still 7,496
unaccounted for missing in Korea; There are 1,570
unaccounted for ...
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Dewey Rewis Obituary (2023)
- Legacy Remembers
July 11, 2023 WASHINGTON-The Defense
POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA)
announced today that U.S. Army Cpl. Dewey E. Rewis
Jr., 18, of Waycross, ...
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SLIDE SHOW: 'Elmer is
home': Pearl Harbor veteran returns to Kentucky | News
... anthropological and mitochondrial
DNA analysis by the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency and the Armed Forces Medical
Examiner System in 2015.
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'Elmer is home': Pearl
Harbor veteran returns to Kentucky | News | kentuckytoday.com
... after his remains were identified
by the Defense POW/MIA Accounting
Agency and the Armed Forces Medical Examiner System
in 2015.
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WATCH: Van Grubb Recalls
Father Shot Down Over Vietnam, Mother Who Was ... - Spot On
Florida
WATCH: Van Grubb Recalls Father Shot
Down Over Vietnam, Mother Who Was Co-Creator of 'You
Are Not Forgotten' POW/MIA Flag ...
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Navy Seaman 1st Class Elmer P.
Lawrence comes home from Pearl Harbor | Kentucky
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency, which works to identify soldiers lost,
announced in June that its scientists had identified
Lawrence in ...
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Funeral of Waycross Korean
War soldier to be held in Homerville in August - WALB
The soldier's remains were identified
on Oct. 25, 2022 by the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA).
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From: DPAA NCR OC Mailbox Public Affairs <dpaa.ncr.oc.mbx.public-affairs@mail.mil>
Sent: 25 July, 2023 10:45
Subject: DPAA News Release - Washington Airman Accounted For From
WWII
Greetings,
Sgt. Aiken was accounted for in May, but his family only recently received their full briefing on his identification, which is why this release is going out now.
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July 25, 2023
WASHINGTON—The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Army Air Forces Sgt. Donal C. Aiken, 22, of Everett, Washington, killed during World War II, was accounted for May 5, 2023.
In the summer of 1944, Aiken was assigned to the 678th Bombardment Squadron, 444th Bombardment Group (Very Heavy), 58th Bombardment Wing, Twentieth Bomber Command. On June 26, Aiken while serving as a crewmember on the B-29 Superfortress crashed into a rice paddy in the village of Sapekhati, India after a bombing raid on Imperial iron and steel works at Yawata, Kyushu Island, Japan. All 11 crew members were killed instantly in the crash.
On June 28, 1944 a team from 342nd Service Squadron, 329th Service Group visited the crash site recovering and identifying only seven sets of remains which were interred at in United States Military Cemetery in Panitola, Assam, India and subsequently disinterred and sent to their final internment on Jan. 13, 1948.
In September 1948 the American Graves Registration Command (AGRC), investigation team searched the area of the crash site, but they did not discover any remains associated with Aiken. He was declared non-recoverable Jan. 2, 1948
In October 2014 the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command (a DPAA predecessor organization) conducted a Joint Field Activity in Sapekhati, which led to the location of the crash site and the recovery of life support equipment and wreckage associated with the B29 aircraft. In 2018 and 2019, Southeastern Archaeological Research (SEARCH) a DPAA partner organization excavated the site and recovered possible osseous remains and material evidence.
To identify Aiken’s remains, scientists from DPAA used material evidence. Additionally, scientists from the Armed Forces Medical Examiner System used mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA), analysis.
Aiken will be buried in Madison, Tennessee on a date yet to be determined.
For family and funeral information, contact the Army Casualty Office at (800) 892-2490.
For additional information on the Defense Department’s mission to account for Americans who went missing while serving our country, visit the DPAA website at www.dpaa.mil or find us on social media at www.facebook.com/dodpaa or https://www.linkedin.com/company/defense-pow-mia-accounting-agency.
From: DPAA
NCR OC Mailbox Public Affairs <dpaa.ncr.oc.mbx.public-affairs@mail.mil>
Sent: 24 July, 2023 10:01
Subject: DPAA News Release - Illinois Solider Accounted For From
WWII
Greetings,
Sgt. Radanovich was accounted for in May, but his family only recently received their full briefing on his identification, which is why this release is going out now.
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July 24, 2023
WASHINGTON—The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Army Sergeant John W. Radanovich, 23, of Mount Olive, Illinois, reported missing during World War II, was accounted for May 11, 2023.
In November 1944, Radanovich was assigned to Company G, 2nd Battalion, 22nd Infantry Regiment, 4th Infantry Division. His rifle platoon was engaged in battle with German forces near the town of Grosshau, in Hürtgen Forest, Germany when he was reported missing in action Dec. 1, 1944. Despite continued progress against German fighting positions, many soldiers were killed along the Company G battle line. The Germans never reported Radanovich as a prisoner of war, and his remains were not immediately recovered. The War Department issued a presumptive finding of death in December 1945.
Following the end of the war, the American Graves Registration Command was tasked with investigating and recovering missing American personnel in Europe. They conducted several investigations in the Hürtgen area between 1946 and 1950. None of the remains recovered during that time were identified as Radanovich.
While studying unresolved American losses in the Hürtgen Forest, a DPAA historian determined that one set of unidentified remains, designated X-2754A Neuville, recovered near Grosshau in 1946 possibly belonged to Radanovich. The remains, which had been buried in Ardennes American Cemetery, an American Battle Monuments Commission site in Neuville-en-Condroz, Belgium, were disinterred in June 2021 and sent to the DPAA laboratory for analysis
To identify Radanovich’s remains, scientists from DPAA used anthropological analysis, as well as circumstantial evidence. Additionally, scientists from the Armed Forces Medical Examiner System used mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA), and autosomal DNA (auSTR) analysis.
Radanovich’s name is recorded on the Walls of the Missing at Netherlands American Cemetery, an American Battle Monuments Commission site in Margarten, Netherlands, along with the others still missing from World War II. A rosette will be placed next to his name to indicate he has been accounted for.
Radanovich will be buried in Mount Olive, Illinois on a date yet to be determined.
For family and funeral information, contact the Army Casualty Office at (800) 892-2490.
DPAA is grateful to the American Battle Monuments Commission and to the U.S. Army Regional Mortuary-Europe/Africa for their partnership in this mission.
For additional information on the Defense Department’s mission to account for Americans who went missing while serving our country, visit the DPAA website at www.dpaa.mil, and find us on social media at www.facebook.com/dodpaa or https://www.linkedin.com/company/defense-pow-mia-accounting-agency.
Radanovich’s personnel profile can be viewed at https://dpaa-mil.sites.crmforce.mil/dpaaProfile?id=a0Jt0000000LlAHEA0 .
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WATCH: Van Grubb Recalls
Father Shot Down Over Vietnam, Mother Who Was Co-Creator ...
That moment set things in motion for
Evelyn Grubb to make a difference with POW/MIA
on a national level. Evelyn Grubb, third from right,
meets with ...
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Medal of Honor
Sailor Accounted For From World War II (Ward, J.)
... 20, of Springfield, Ohio, killed
during World War II, and posthumously awarded the
Medal of Honor, was accounted for on Aug. 19,
2021.On Dec.
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National Medal of Honor
museum in Arlington expected to be completed in 2025 - YouTube
National Medal of Honor museum
in Arlington expected to be completed in 2025. WFAA.
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Remains of Ohio Medal of
Honor sailor who died on USS Oklahoma ID'd - ABC 6
... members of the turret crew could
see during their escape, which cost him his life.
His parents were given his Medal of Honor in
March 1942.
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Remains of a Texas WWII pilot
identified, finally coming home - KRIS 6 News
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — On Friday, the
Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA)
announced that they have identified the remains of of U.S.
Army ...
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Remains of World War II
soldier to be buried in Plains - KWCH
In 2017, the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency began exhuming unknowns believed
to be associated with unaccounted-for airman from
Operation TIDAL ...
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Remains of World War II
soldier to be buried in North Olmsted - WKYC
In 2017, the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency began exhuming unknowns that were
believed to be associated with unaccounted-for
Soldiers from ...
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Kentucky flags ordered to
half-staff for Saturday July 22 - WPSD Local 6
According to the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency, Lawrence was 25 years old, and he
was from Park City, Kentucky. He died aboard the
U.S.S. ...
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Missing In Action: Bring
Captain William Royal Fisher Home | Long Island Weekly
U.S. Government website for the
Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA)
reports: “On the evening of January 23, 1952, a B-29
Superfortress (tail ...
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Pilot Accounted For From
World War II (Shoup, N.) - Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S.
Army Air Forces 1st Lt. Noel E. Shoup, 25, of
Dublin, Texas, killed during ...
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Texas pilot accounted for
from WWII by Defense POW/MIA - KWTX
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency has announced that U.S. Army Air
Forces 1st Lt. Noel E. Shoup, 25, of Dublin, Texas,
killed during World War ...
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Medal of Honor Sailor
Accounted For From World War II (Ward, J.)
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that Navy
Seaman 1st Class James R. Ward, 20, of Springfield,
Ohio, killed during ...
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Veterans object to removal
of POW/MIA flags from town property in Cheshire
The POW/MIA flag —
first adopted in the 1970s to raise awareness on
behalf of family members with loved ones unaccounted
for in Southeast Asia — had ...
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Outgoing 1st Cavalry
Division commander remembers POWs/MIAs | Fort Cavazos
Herald
The 1st Cavalry Division's POW/MIA
memorial was constructed to resemble an OH-13 Sioux
reconnaisance helicopter in honor of one confirmed
POW from the ...
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Springfield sailor killed
at Pearl Harbor in 1941 to be buried at Arlington National
Cemetery
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA) says as the order was given
to abandon ship, Ward sacrificed his own life by
holding a flashlight so ...
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Former Vietnam War POW
enjoys 50 years of freedom - The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Former Vietnam War POW enjoys 50
years of freedom ... for their humane treatment and
release through the National League of POW/MIA
Families.
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WWII airman's remains
identified as James Triplett of Spokane - The Spokesman-Review
1944, have been identified by the
Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency. The
remains will be buried at Arlington National
Cemetery in October.
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Spokane airman connected
World War II remains - KREM.com
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA) identified the 36-year-old
Tripplett in October 2022. Triplett died during
World War II while he was ...
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From:
DPAA NCR OC Mailbox Public Affairs <dpaa.ncr.oc.mbx.public-affairs@mail.mil>
Sent: 21 July, 2023 11:09
Subject: DPAA News Release - Texas Pilot Accounted For From WWII
Greetings,
1LT Shoup was accounted from in April, but his family only recently received their full briefing on his identification, which is why this release is going out now.
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July 21, 2023
WASHINGTON—The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Army Air Forces 1st Lt. Noel E. Shoup, 25, of Dublin, Texas, killed during World War II, was accounted for April 6, 2023.
In February 1944, Shoup was assigned to the359th Bombardment Squadron, 303d Bombardment Group (Heavy). On Feb. 28 Shoup was piloting a B-17F “Flying Fortress,” that was struck by anti-aircraft after a bombing raid on German rocket sites in France’s Pas-de-Calais department. His body was not recovered, and the Germans never reported him as a prisoner of war. The War Department issued a finding of death on July 14, 1945.
According to witnesses before the B17F crashed near the village of Le Translay, France, three airmen parachuted successfully, seven crew members were killed, five were recovered and identified and the remaining two including Shoup were not identified. At the time of the crash, German forces recovered six sets of remains, near the village of Wiammeville, France and were buried in the English World War I Memorial Cemetery at Abbeville on March 2, 1944.
In 1945 an American graves registration team disinterred the six sets of remains from Abbeville and reburied them in the United States Military Cemetery at St. Andre (USMC St. Andre), France. Graves registration personnel designated one set of unknown remains as X-452 St. Andre.
Beginning in 1946, the American Graves Registration Command (AGRC), Army Quartermaster Corps, was the organization tasked with recovering missing American personnel in the European Theater. In March 1947, following unsuccessful attempts to identify X-452, AGRC investigators transferred X-452 from USMC St. Andre to the Suresnes American Cemetery. He was declared non-recoverable on Dec. 26, 1950
In September 2017 two French researchers led a DPAA Investigation Team to an aircraft crash site in Wiammeville, France. Which resulted in subsequent investigation and recovery efforts in 2018, finding material evidence and osseous remains.
In October 2019, X-452 St. Andre was disinterred from the Suresnes American Cemetery and transported the remains to the DPAA laboratory for forensic analysis.
To identify Shoup’s remains, scientists from DPAA used dental and anthropological analysis. Additionally, scientists from the Armed Forces Medical Examiner System used Y chromosome (Y-STR) analysis.
Shoup’s name is recorded on the on the Tablets of the Missing at Ardennes American Cemetery, an American Battle Monuments Commission site in Neupré, Belgium, along with others still missing from WWII. A rosette will be placed next to his name to indicate he has been accounted for.
Shoup will be buried in Dublin, Texas, on Sept. 11, 2023.
For family and funeral information, contact the Army Casualty Office at (800) 892-2490.
DPAA is grateful to the American Battle Monuments Commission for their partnership in this mission.
For additional information on the Defense Department’s mission to account for Americans who went missing while serving our country, visit the DPAA website at www.dpaa.mil or find us on social media at www.facebook.com/dodpaa or https://www.linkedin.com/company/defense-pow-mia-accounting-agency.
Shoup’s personnel profile can be viewed at: https://dpaa-mil.sites.crmforce.mil/dpaaProfile?id=a0Jt000001DKIqmEAH.
From: DPAA NCR OC Mailbox
Public Affairs
<dpaa.ncr.oc.mbx.public-affairs@mail.mil>
Sent: 19 July, 2023 06:36
Subject: DPAA News Release - Ohio Medal of Honor Sailor Accounted
For From WWII
Greetings,
S1c Ward was accounted for in August 2021, but his family only recently received their full briefing on his identification, which is why this release is going out now.
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July 19, 2023
WASHINGTON—The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that Navy Seaman 1st Class James R. Ward, 20, of Springfield, Ohio, killed during World War II, and posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor, was accounted for on Aug. 19, 2021.
On Dec. 7, 1941, Ward was assigned to the battleship USS Oklahoma, which was moored at Ford Island, Pearl Harbor, when the ship was attacked by Japanese aircraft. The USS Oklahoma sustained multiple torpedo hits, which caused it to quickly capsize. The attack on the ship resulted in the deaths of 429 crewmen.
Before the ship capsized and the order was given to abandon ship, Ward remained in a turret holding a flashlight so the remainder of the turret crew could see to escape, thereby sacrificing his own life. For conspicuous devotion to duty, extraordinary courage and complete disregard of his own life, above and beyond the call of duty, Ward’s parents were presented with his Medal of Honor in March 1942. And the destroyer escort USS J. Richard Ward DE-243 was named in honor of Seaman Ward. It was commissioned in 1943 and decommissioned in 1946.
From December 1941 to June 1944, Navy personnel recovered the remains of the deceased crew, which were subsequently interred in the Halawa and Nu’uanu Cemeteries.
In September 1947, tasked with recovering and identifying fallen U.S. personnel in the Pacific Theater, members of the American Graves Registration Service (AGRS) disinterred the remains of U.S. casualties from the two cemeteries and transferred them to the Central Identification Laboratory at Schofield Barracks. The laboratory staff was only able to confirm the identifications of 35 men from the USS Oklahoma at that time. The AGRS subsequently buried the unidentified remains in 46 plots at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific (NMCP), known as the Punchbowl, in Honolulu. In October 1949, a military board classified those who could not be identified as non-recoverable, including Ward.
Between June and November 2015, DPAA personnel exhumed the USS Oklahoma Unknowns from the Punchbowl for analysis.
To identify Ward’s remains, scientists from DPAA used dental and anthropological analysis. Additionally, scientists from the Armed Forces Medical Examiner System used mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) analysis.
Ward’s name is recorded on the Courts of the Missing at the Punchbowl, along with the others who are missing from WWII. A rosette will be placed next to his name to indicate he has been accounted for.
Ward will be buried at Arlington National Cemetery, on a date yet to be determined.
For family and funeral information, contact the Navy Personnel Command’s Public Affairs Office at 901-874-4528.
DPAA is grateful to the Department of Veterans Affairs and the Department of the Navy for their partnership in this mission.
For additional information on the Defense Department’s mission to account for Americans who went missing while serving our country, visit the DPAA website at www.dpaa.mil, find us on social media at www.facebook.com/dodpaa or https://www.linkedin.com/company/defense-pow-mia-accounting-agency.
Ward’s personnel profile can be viewed at https://dpaa-mil.sites.crmforce.mil/dpaaProfile?id=a0Jt0000000XgAYEA0.
From: DPAA
NCR OC Mailbox Public Affairs <dpaa.ncr.oc.mbx.public-affairs@mail.mil>
Sent: 18 July, 2023 10:42
Subject: DPAA News Release - Washington Airman Accounted For From
WWII
Greetings,
Tech. Sgt. Triplett was accounted for in October 2022, but his family only recently received their full briefing on his identification, which is why this release is going out now.
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July 18, 2023
WASHINGTON— The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that Army Air Forces Tech. Sgt. James M. Triplett, 36, of Spokane, Washington, killed during World War II, was accounted for Oct. 25, 2022.
In September 1944, Triplett was assigned to 700th Bombardment Squadron, 445th Bombardment Group, 2d Air Division, 8th Air Force. On Sept. 27, the B-24H Liberator bomber on which he was serving as a radio operator was part of a large mission to bomb the industrial city Kassel in northern Hesse, Germany. During the mission the formation of aircraft encountered heavy resistance from enemy ground and air forces, which resulted in the rapid loss of 25 Liberators. Several of the crew aboard Triplett’s aircraft were able to bail out, and witnesses who survived did not report seeing him escape the aircraft. Six of the nine crew members were killed. His body was not recovered and the Germans never reported him as a prisoner of war. The War Department issued a finding of death on Sept. 28, 1945.
Following the end of the war, the American Graves Registration Command (AGRC) was tasked with investigating and recovering missing American personnel in Europe. They discovered the Liberator crash site outside of Richelsdorf, Germany. An identification tag for one of the missing crew members was discovered at this site. Two sets of human remains recovered in October 1951 from this excavation were not able to be identified, were designated as X-9070 Liege and X-9071 Liege, and subsequently interred. X-9070 was buried at Luxembourg American Cemetery in Belgium, while X-9071 had been buried in what is now North Africa American Cemetery in Tunis, Tunisia, in the 1950’s. Both cemeteries are registered as American Battle Monuments Commission cemeteries.
DPAA historians are conducting ongoing, comprehensive research focused on air losses over Germany. As a result, they determined X-9070 and X-9071 to be a strong candidate for association with Triplett. X-9070 was disinterred in April 2018 and X-9071 was disinterred in September 2022 and sent to the DPAA laboratory at Offutt Air Force Base, Nebraska, for examination and identification.
To identify Triplett’s remains, scientists from DPAA used anthropological analysis, as well as circumstantial evidence. Additionally, scientists from the Armed Forces Medical Examiner System used mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) and Y chromosome DNA (Y-STR) analysis.
Triplett’s name is recorded on the Walls of the Missing at Luxembourg American Cemetery, an American Battle Monuments Commission site in Luxembourg, along with the others still missing from World War II. A rosette will be placed next to his name to indicate he has been accounted for.
Triplett will be buried in Arlington National Cemetery, on Oct. 31, 2023.
For family and funeral information, contact the Army Casualty Office at (800) 892-2490
DPAA is grateful to the American Battle Monuments Commission and to the U.S. Army Regional Mortuary-Europe/Africa for their partnership in this mission.
For additional information on the Defense Department’s mission to account for Americans who went missing while serving our country, visit the DPAA website at www.dpaa.mil, find us on social media at www.facebook.com/dodpaa or https://www.linkedin.com/company/defense-pow-mia-accounting-agency.
Triplett’s personnel profile can be viewed https://dpaa-mil.sites.crmforce.mil/dpaaProfile?id=a0Jt0000000LlaFEAS
Pvt. Travis King: Everything We Know About the Soldier Who Ran into North Korea Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said that Pvt. Travis King "willfully and without authorization" crossed the border.
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Death on a 'hell ship': Offutt lab starts
to ID U.S. POWs who died on Japanese transports
Now the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency is trying to find out. This year they
have disinterred 71 caskets containing 431 sets of
remains linked ...
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Remains of Dayton World
War II Airman identified - WDTN.com
(Photos courtesy of the Defense
POW/MIA Accounting Agency). The
injured pilots tried to raise the nose and climb
up so the crewmen would have a ...
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Remains of Dayton man
killed in WWII identified - Sidney Daily News
WASHINGTON—The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA) has announced that U.S.
Army Air Forces 1st Lt. Howard L. Dickson, 30,
of Dayton, Ohio, ...
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The Missing in Action
From Every State Since WWII, Broken Out by War - 24/7 Wall
Street
And in other recent conflicts,
within the last forty years, there remain few
personnel reported as MIA, according to the
Defense POW/MIA Accounting... .
Stats:
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Bryant: 'Honored to be invited to attend
the final interment of a U.S. Army hero' | Carbondale Reporter
“Sgt. Malcolm died in a
Korean POW Camp 70 years ago. ... But the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA) identified the sergeant's
remains on ...
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Army Pfc. Barrett, who
died as a POW in World War II, has been accounted for
- Audacy
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced recently that
Army Pfc. Arthur C. Barrett, 27, of Swanton,
Vermont, who was captured and ...
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Nearly 80 years after going MIA in
WWII, US soldier accounted for - Hartford Courant
Remains of Pvt. Wing O. Hom,
of Boston, were identified in April using both
anthropological and mitochondrial DNA analysis, the
Defense POW/MIA ...
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8 New Military Museums
That Will Honor Veterans and Inspire All Americans - AARP
Learn about the history of
mounted warriors, POW/MIA, Medal
of Honor recipients, Navajo Code Talkers and
more at these soon-to-open military ...
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Funeral planned for
Barren County sailor killed at Pearl Harbor - WBKO
Between June and November 2015,
Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency
(DPAA) personnel exhumed the USS Oklahoma
Unknowns from the Punchbowl for analysis.
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Valdese teen lost in
Korean War to be laid to rest in Salisbury - Morganton News
Herald
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced Monday that
U.S. Army Cpl. Rex W. Powell, 18, of Valdese,
who was killed during the Korean ...
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Thompson votes in favor
of defense bill | Local | bradfordera.com
....The POW/MIA Reporting Amendment directs the
Department of Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency
to submit a report to Congress identifying the
most significant obstacles the agency faces in
recovering and identifying remains of our
service members missing in action or those who
remain prisoners of war. It will also require
the Director to provide recommendations on how
Congress and federal agencies can assist in
overcoming these obstacles.....
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Crapo, Shaheen
Reintroduce Bill to Help Bring Missing Servicemembers Home
According to the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency, more than 81,500
Americans--including 361 Idahoans--remain
unaccounted for from World War II, ...
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Almost 80 years after he was killed in
action, Nutley serviceman's remains finally come home
In partnership with the
Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA),
the project recovered MIAs from the Avenger during their
first MIA Recovery ...
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Full military honors - AF.mil
... National Cemetery in San
Bruno, Calif., June 30, 2023. De Soto was accounted for
by the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency
on March 23, 2023,...
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Outgoing 1st Cavalry
Division commander unveils war memorials - The Killeen Daily
Herald
Friday, Richardson helped unveil
the POW/MIA memorial on the
southeast side of the division's headquarters to
pay respects to the 708 troopers who ...
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Sailor killed at Pearl
Harbor to be buried in Barren County - WNKY News 40
Television
In 2015, the governor's office
says the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency personnel exhumed the
unidentified remains for analysis.
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Cave City man
recognized by Beshear for his sacrifice - WEHT
(Courtesy: Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency). (Courtesy: Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency) Read Less. by: Jana Garrett.
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Fallen sailor killed in
Pearl Harbor coming home to be laid to rest | News -
Kentucky Today
In 2015, Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency personnel exhumed the USS
Oklahoma Unknowns from the Punchbowl for
analysis and were able to identify ...
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Police catch suspect in
Maine VFW theft - WMTW
Then, he says someone altered the
flags on the POW/MIA monument,
placing the POW/MIA Flag upside
down and on top of the American Flag, then tying
the ...
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Police: Suspect
arrested in VFW theft investigation - WABI
Over the past couple of weeks,
cans and bottles were stolen from their donation
collection and their P-O-W/M-I-A
memorial was vandalized.
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From: DPAA NCR OC Mailbox Public Affairs <dpaa.ncr.oc.mbx.public-affairs@mail.mil>
Sent: 17 July, 2023 07:43
Subject: DPAA News Release - Ohio Airman Accounted For From WWII
Greetings,
1LT Dickson was accounted for in August 2022, but his family only recently received their full briefing on his identification, which is why this release is going out now.
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July 17, 2023
WASHINGTON—The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Army Air Forces 1st Lt. Howard L. Dickson, 30, of Dayton, Ohio, killed during World War II, was accounted for Aug. 23, 2022.
In the summer of 1943, Dickson was assigned to the 328th Bombardment Squadron (Heavy), 93rd Bombardment Group (Heavy), 9th Air Force. On Aug. 1, 1943, the B-24 Liberator bomber on which Dickson was a gunner and instructor was hit by enemy anti-aircraft fire and crashed during Operation TIDAL WAVE, the largest bombing mission against the oil fields and refineries at Ploiesti, north of Bucharest, Romania. His remains were not identified following the war. The remains that could not be identified were buried as Unknowns in the Hero Section of the Civilian and Military Cemetery of Bolovan, Ploiesti, Prahova, Romania.
Following the war, the American Graves Registration Command (AGRC), the organization that searched for and recovered fallen American personnel, disinterred all American remains from the Bolovan Cemetery for identification. The AGRC was unable to identify more than 80 unknowns from Bolovan Cemetery, and those remains were permanently interred at Ardennes American Cemetery and Henri-Chapelle American Cemetery, both in Belgium.
In 2017, DPAA began exhuming unknowns believed to be associated with unaccounted-for airmen from Operation TIDAL WAVE losses. These remains were sent to the DPAA Laboratory at Offutt Air Force Base, Nebraska, for examination and identification.
To identify Dickson’s remains, scientists from DPAA used anthropological analysis, as well as circumstantial evidence. Additionally, scientists from the Armed Forces Medical Examiner System used mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA), Y chromosome DNA (Y-STR), and autosomal DNA (auSTR) analysis.
Dickson’s name is recorded on the Tablets of the Missing at the Florence American Cemetery, an American Battle Monuments Commission site in Impruneta, Italy, along with others still missing from WWII. A rosette will be placed next to his name to indicate he has been accounted for.
Dickson will be buried in Arlington National Cemetery on a date yet to be determined.
For family and funeral information, contact the Army Casualty Office at (800) 892-2490.
DPAA is grateful to the American Battle Monuments Commission and to the U.S. Army Regional Mortuary-Europe/Africa for their partnership in this mission.
For additional information on the Defense Department’s mission to account for Americans who went missing while serving our country, visit the DPAA website at www.dpaa.mil or find us on social media at www.facebook.com/dodpaa or https://www.linkedin.com/company/defense-pow-mia-accounting-agency.
Dickson’s personnel profile can be viewed at https://dpaa-mil.sites.crmforce.mil/dpaaProfile?id=a0Jt000001R7aDiEAJ.
| Subject: | Karnig Arsen Thomasian---Former POW |
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| Date: | Fri, 14 Jul 2023 13:08:16 -0400 |
| From: | moehog@verizon.net |
| To: | moehog@verizon.net |
It is with HEAVY heart that I share with you the passing of former WWII POW, KARNIG THOMASIAN, 99 years young! We were blessed to have Karnig join us several times at the RIDE HOME. He was just a boy when he joined the service, (had to get his parents signature just to go to boot camp. You ‘ll will see when you read the obituary- Karnig Thomasian - Gaita Memorial Home (gaitamh.com) - that he promised his folks to finish his education when he got home. (he did). He was quite the character and a true Veteran Brother. We were honored to have met such a patriotic American. Our condolences to his family and friends and we pray the Almighty will continue to look after him.
Special ‘Thanks’ to our younger Brothers (Paul C., Gus D.) in New Jersey for keeping us in the loop.
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WWII Soldier Who Went MIA
Finally Identified 79 Years Later
Defense POW/MIA
Accounting AgencyU.S. Army Pvt. Wing O. Hom who, went MIA ...
using mitochondrial DNA testing nearly 80 years after he went
MIA.
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Unknown sailor killed in Pearl
Harbor identified as Maine man - Bangor Daily News
Allen was one of the 388 sailors who
initially were unidentified. The USS Oklahoma Project,
an effort by the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency to ...
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Soldier went missing during World War II. His remains have now been identified
U.S. Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency via AP. A U.S. Military soldier from
Massachusetts has been accounted for after going missing
during World ...
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The Women Behind the POW/MIA
Movement | Video - RealClearPolitics
Symbolized by the rapidly ubiquitous
black POW/MIA flags around the
country, ... and the author of two other books about
our nation's POWs.
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Remains of World War II
Soldier buried in Exeter, Rhode Island - DVIDS
Years later, a historian with the
Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency
determined that one of two sets of unidentified
comingled remains, ...
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Remains of WWII soldier Wing O
Hom identified after 79 years - New York Post
Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency. An Army private, who went missing in
action nearly 80 years ago, has finally been identified
after his body was ...
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Nearly 80 years after going
MIA in WWII, US soldier accounted for - Army Times
This World War II-era photo
provided by U.S. Defense POW/MIA Accounting
Agency, shows Army Pvt. Wing O. Hom, of Boston. (U.S.
Defense POW/MIA ...
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Young soldier ID'd nearly
80 years after going MIA in WWII - Tulsa World
Young soldier ID'd nearly 80 years
after going MIA in WWII. U.S. DEFENSE POW/MIA
... U.S. DEFENSE POW/MIA ACCOUNTING
AGENCY VIA ASSOCIATED PRESS ...
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Nearly 80 years after going
MIA in WWII, US soldier accounted for - Livingston
Enterprise
This World War II-era photo provided
by U.S. Defense POW/MIA Accounting
Agency, shows U.S. Army Pvt. Wing O. Hom, of Boston.
Hom, who was reported ...
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Soldiers Remains Identified
- Roanoke Times
... in Italy during World War II, has
finally been accounted for, the military said. U.S.
Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency via
Associated Press ...
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New Orleans sailor on WWII
battleship accounted for, identified | WGNO.com - CenlaNow
According to officials with the
Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency,
Navy Ship's Cook First Class Clarence Thompson, 42,
was accounted for on Oct.
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Nearly 80 years after going
MIA in WWII, US soldier accounted for - Stars and Stripes
(Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency). BOSTON — A U.S. Army soldier from
Massachusetts reported missing in action while his unit was
involved in ...
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Nearly 80 Years After Going
MIA in WWII, US Soldier Accounted For | Military.com
This World War II-era photo
provided by U.S. Defense POW/MIA Accounting
Agency, shows U.S. Army Pvt. Wing O. Hom, of Boston. (U.S.
Defense POW/MIA ...
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Nearly 80 years after going
MIA in WWII, US soldier accounted for - Stamford Advocate
... were identified in April using
both anthropological and mitochondrial DNA analysis,
the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency
announced Tuesday.
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Veterans Corner: Beware of
latest telephone scam | Community | meadvilletribune.com
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA) 2023 Vietnam War Annual
Government Briefing was held in Washington, D.C., on
June 30.
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A tribute on three wheels:
Air Force veteran shares stories of fallen servicemen in a
special way
Additionally, he also had her paint
the sides of the motorcycle with the American Flag
and added more P.O.W./M.I.A.–related
symbols.
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Vietnam War AH-1 pilot who
lifted four US Army soldiers clinging to the Cobra's skids and
...
Biden informed him that he will
receive the Medal of Honor for his actions on
Jun. 12, 1968. On Jul. 8, 2023 former Vietnam War
veteran Larry ...
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Opinion: While Republican
Sen. Tommy Tuberville holds up military promotions, Medal of
...
We're glad no one put a final "hold"
on the decision to award Signal Mountain's Larry
Taylor the Medal of Honor for his actions in
Vietnam 55 ...
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Eighth Army, ROK Army MPs
gather to discuss POW operations | Article - Army.mil
April 26, 2023Army Medal of Honor
recipient and Korean War veteran remains identified
· May 18, 2022The Army operates cutting-edge systems
under ...
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Vietnam War veterans become
fast friends after discovery, return of missing box - YouTube
Fighting Back the NVA After 4 Days
Left this Medal of Honor Recipient ...
Medal of Honor Pilot Bruce Crandall, 1st Cavalry
Veteran of Ia Drang ...
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Remains of missing World
War II US Army soldier from Mass. identified 79 years later ...
Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency\Handout. Federal officials have
identified the remains of a US Army soldier from
Massachusetts who went missing ...
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"We feel like we are being
targeted:" Maine VFW Post hit by thieves - WMTW
Then, he says someone altered
the flags on the POW/MIA monument, placing the
POW/MIA Flag upside down and on top of the
American Flag, ...
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Young solider from Boston
missing in action in World War II finally identified after 79
years
POW MIA
Flag. Elizabeth Fraser / U.S. Army. BOSTON (WBZ) --
A young solider from Boston who had been missing in
action in World War II for 79 ...
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Finally home: Korean War
soldier from Valdese accounted for after 73 years - WPDE
13, 2023, but his family only
recently received a full briefing on his
identification, the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency said Monday.
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VFW members search for answers
following theft and vandalism incidents - Fox Bangor
The POW MIA flag was put
upside down. The American flag was tied in knots and put
back up on the flag pole,” explains Roberts.
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Soldier Accounted For From
Korean War (Rewis, D.)
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S.
Army Cpl. Dewey E. Rewis Jr., 18, of Waycross,
Georgia, ...
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Young solider from Boston
missing in action in World War II finally identified after 79
years
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA) made the announcement
Tuesday, saying they had waited to give his family a
full briefing first.
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Soldier Accounted For From
World War II (Hom, W.)
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S.
Army Pvt. Wing O. Hom, 20, of Boston, Massachusetts,
missing in action ...
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Korean War soldier from
Waycross accounted for after over 70 years | WTGS
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced Tuesday that U.S.
Army Cpl. Dewey E. Rewis Jr., 18, of Waycross, who
died as a prisoner of ...
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Texas Soldier Accounted For
From Korea - The Gilmer Mirror
WASHINGTON—The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that Army
Sgt. Cresenciano Garcia, Jr., 22, of Laredo,
Texas, ...
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WWII
soldier's remains return home almost 80 years later - WESH
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA). U.S. Navy Aviation Ordnanceman
First Class Anthony Di Petta (From:The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting ...
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Finally home: Korean War
soldier from Valdese accounted for after 73 years - WLOS
(WLOS) — The remains of Korean War
soldier from Valdese have finally been accounted
for, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting
Agency (DPAA) said Monday.
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Fallen WWII soldier's
remains finally laid to rest in Rhode Island - ABC6
The remains of George Thomas were
positively identified this Spring by the US Defense
POW/MIA Agency. Thomas, 31 at the
time, was killed in ...
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After theft, Belfast VFW
asks for community's help - (WABI)
Two weeks ago, we had some bottles
and cans removed from our bottle collection trailer.
Somebody vandalized our POW/MIA
monument by removing a flag, ...
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Local WWII soldier's body
missing for decades to be laid to rest | WPRI.com
(WPRI) — After his body went
unidentified for decades, an East Providence World War II
Veteran is being brought home on Monday. The Defense POW/MIA ...
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Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency: Local World War II soldier located, to be buried
this week
WASHINGTON – The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced that Army Pfc. George B.
Thomas, 31, of East Providence, Rhode Island, ...
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Soldier Accounted For From
Korean War (Powell, R.)
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S.
Army Cpl. Rex W. Powell, 18, Valdese, North
Carolina, who was killed during ...
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Nearly 80 years later,
remains of missing WWII soldier will finally be laid to rest in
R.I.
The remains of Army Private First
Class George B. Thomas of East Providence were
identified by the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency in March ...
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Funeral Procession Will
Honor Nutley WWII Veteran Killed In Combat | Belleville, NJ
Patch
Earlier this year, the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced that U.S. Navy
Aviation Ordnanceman First Class Anthony Di Petta
is ...
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Anthony Di Petta's Remains
Finally Return Home After 80 Years in the Pacific Ocean
... confirmed the arrival of Anthony
Di Petta remains back in the country on Friday, as
reported by the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA).
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Princeton University student Elizabeth Tsurkov, 36, who vanished three
months ago during research trip to Baghdad is ALIVE and being
held hostage by Iran-backed militia group
Elizabeth Tsurkov,
36, (main) who disappeared in late March, is being held by the
Shiite group Kataeb Hezbollah or Hezbollah Brigades (below). She
last tweeted on March 21 before she vanished in Baghdad. The U.S.
government listed the powerful Iran-backed militia group as a
terrorist organization in 2009. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu's office said Tsurkov is still alive and that they 'hold
Iraq responsible for her safety and well-being.' Her work focuses on
the Middle East, and specifically war-torn Syria, is an expert on
regional affairs and has been widely quoted over the years by
international media. Her concerned colleagues at Princeton (inset)
are now calling on the US government to help secure her release....
| Subject: | Front page of our website! |
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| Date: | Thu, 13 Jul 2023 15:32:47 -0400 |
| From: | Cheryl Cerbone <cherecerbone@comcast.net> |
Don’t miss it!
An
excellent recap of the 50th anniversary of the Vietnam
Homecoming…and a truly lovely story by our commander’s wife, Robbie.
Your eyes will water.
Best to all
Cheryl
From:
DPAA NCR OC Mailbox Public Affairs <dpaa.ncr.oc.mbx.public-affairs@mail.mil>
Sent: 12 July, 2023 12:55
Subject: DPAA News Release - USS Oklahoma Sailor Accounted For
From Louisiana
Greetings,
SC1c Thompson was accounted for in October 2021, but his family only recently received their full briefing on his identification, which is why this release is going out now.
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July 12, 2023
WASHINGTON—The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that Navy Ship’s Cook 1st Class Clarence Thompson, 47, of New Orleans, Louisiana, killed during World War II, was accounted for on Oct. 14, 2021.
On Dec. 7, 1941, Thompson was assigned to the battleship USS Oklahoma, which was moored at Ford Island, Pearl Harbor, when the ship was attacked by Japanese aircraft. The USS Oklahoma sustained multiple torpedo hits, which caused it to quickly capsize. The attack on the ship resulted in the deaths of 429 crewmen, including Thompson.
From December 1941 to June 1944, Navy personnel recovered the remains of the deceased crew, which were subsequently interred in the Halawa and Nu’uanu Cemeteries.
In September 1947, tasked with recovering and identifying fallen U.S. personnel in the Pacific Theater, members of the American Graves Registration Service (AGRS) disinterred the remains of U.S. casualties from the two cemeteries and transferred them to the Central Identification Laboratory at Schofield Barracks. The laboratory staff was only able to confirm the identifications of 35 men from the USS Oklahoma at that time. The AGRS subsequently buried the unidentified remains in 46 plots at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific (NMCP), known as the Punchbowl, in Honolulu. In October 1949, a military board classified those who could not be identified as non-recoverable, including Thompson.
Between June and November 2015, DPAA personnel exhumed the USS Oklahoma Unknowns from the Punchbowl for analysis.
To identify Thompson’s remains, scientists from DPAA used dental and anthropological analysis. Additionally, scientists from the Armed Forces Medical Examiner System used mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) and Y chromosome DNA (Y-STR) analysis.
Thompson’s name is recorded on the Courts of the Missing at the Punchbowl, along with the others who are missing from WWII. A rosette will be placed next to his name to indicate he has been accounted for.
Thompson will be buried on Aug. 25, 2023, in Slidell, Louisiana.
For family and funeral information, contact the Navy Service Casualty office at (800) 443-9298.
DPAA is grateful to the Department of Veterans Affairs and the Department of the Navy for their partnership in this mission.
For additional information on the Defense Department’s mission to account for Americans who went missing while serving our country, visit the DPAA website at www.dpaa.mil or find us on social media at www.facebook.com/dodpaa or https://www.linkedin.com/company/defense-pow-mia-accounting-agency.
Thompson’s personnel profile can be viewed at https://dpaa-mil.sites.crmforce.mil/dpaaProfile?id=a0Jt0000000XgCFEA0.
From: DPAA
NCR OC Mailbox Public Affairs <dpaa.ncr.oc.mbx.public-affairs@mail.mil>
Sent: 11 July, 2023 11:16
Subject: DPAA News Release - Massachusetts Soldier Accounted For
From WWII
Greetings,
Pvt. Hom was accounted for in April, but his family only recently received their full briefing on his identification, which is why this release is going out now.
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July 11, 2023
WASHINGTON—The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Army Pvt. Wing O. Hom, 20, of Boston, Massachusetts, missing in action during World War II, was accounted for April 6, 2023.
In February 1944, Hom was assigned to the Company B, 7th Infantry Regiment, 3d Infantry Division. On Feb. 2, Hom went missing in action when his unit engaged in defensive fighting against German Forces near the town of Cisterna di Latina, Italy. His body was not recovered, and the Germans never reported him a prisoner of war. The War Department issued a finding of death on Feb. 3, 1945.
Following the war, the American Graves Registration Command (AGRC), Army Quartermaster Corps, was the organization tasked with recovering missing American personnel in the European Theater. In 1946, AGRC investigators recovered a set of remains designated as X-541 Nettuno, three miles west of Cisterna thought to be associated with Hom. The investigators didn’t have enough identifying data to positively ID the remains and they were interred at USMC Nettuno, which is now Sicily-Rome American Cemetery. He was declared non-recoverable May 10, 1949.
While studying unresolved American losses in the Anzio battlefield, a DPAA historian determined that one set of unidentified remains designated X-541 Nettuno recovered near Cisterna in September 1944, possibly belonged to Hom. The remains which had been buried at Sicily-Rome American Cemetery, Nettuna, Italy in 1948, were disinterred in September 2021 and sent to the DPAA laboratory at Offutt Air Force Base, Nebraska, for identification.
To identify Hom remains, scientists from DPAA used anthropological analysis. Additionally, scientists from the Armed Forces Medical Examiner System used mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA), analysis.
Hom’s name is recorded on the Walls of the Missing at Sicily-Rome American Cemetery an American Battle Monuments Commission site in Nettuno, Italy, along with others still missing from WWII. A rosette will be placed next to his name to indicate he has been accounted for.
Hom will be buried in Brooklyn, New York on Oct. 11, 2023.
For family and funeral information, contact the Army Casualty Office at (800) 892-2490.
For additional information on the Defense Department’s mission to account for Americans who went missing while serving our country, visit the DPAA website at www.dpaa.mil or find us on social media at www.facebook.com/dodpaa or https://www.linkedin.com/company/defense-pow-mia-accounting-agency.
Hom’s personnel profile can be viewed at: https://dpaa-mil.sites.crmforce.mil/dpaaProfile?id=a0Jt000001nzXLeEAM.
From: DPAA
NCR OC Mailbox Public Affairs <dpaa.ncr.oc.mbx.public-affairs@mail.mil>
Sent: 10 July, 2023 13:51
Subject: DPAA News Release - North Carolina Soldier Accounted For
From Korea
Greetings,
Cpl. Powell was accounted for in February, but his family only recently received their full briefing on his identification, which is why this release is going out now.
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July 10, 2023
WASHINGTON—The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Army Cpl. Rex W. Powell, 18, Valdese, North Carolina, who was killed during the Korean War, was accounted for Feb. 13, 2023
In the winter of 1950, Powell was a member of L Company, 3rd Battalion, 31st Infantry Regiment, 7th Infantry Division. He was reported missing in action on Dec. 12, when his unit was attacked by enemy forces near the Chosin Reservoir, North Korea. While it is possible Powell was captured, there was no record or eyewitness accounts of him being held as a prisoner of war, and no recovered remains were ever identified as him. The Army issued a presumptive finding of death on Dec. 31, 1953.
During Operation GLORY in 1954, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea returned the remains of over 2,900 Americans. During the subsequent processing and identification of these remains, none were associated with Powell, and he was declared non-recoverable in January 1956. At the end of the identification process, 848 unidentified remains, including one designated X-15633 Operation GLORY, were interred at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, also known as the Punchbowl, in Honolulu, Hawaii.
In July 2018, the DPAA proposed a plan to disinter 652 Korean War Unknowns from the Punchbowl. In March 2021, during Phase Three of DPAA’s Korean War Disinterment Project, X-15633 was disinterred from the Punchbowl and transferred to the DPAA Laboratory at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii, for analysis.
To identify Powell’s remains, scientists from DPAA used dental and anthropological analysis. Additionally, scientists from the Armed Forces Medical Examiner System used mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) analysis.
Powell’s name is recorded on the Courts of the Missing at the Punchbowl, along with the others who are still missing from the Korean War. A rosette will be placed next to his name to indicate he has been accounted for.
Powell will be buried in Salisbury, North Carolina on Aug. 11, 2023.
For family and funeral information, contact the Army Casualty Office at (800) 892-2490.
To see the most up-to-date statistics on DPAA recovery efforts for those unaccounted for from the Korean War, go to the Korean War Accounting page on the DPAA website at: https://dpaa-mil.sites.crmforce.mil/dpaaFamWebKorean.
For additional information on the Defense Department’s mission to account for Americans who went missing while serving our country, visit the DPAA website at www.dpaa.mil, find us on social media at www.facebook.com/dodpaa or https://www.linkedin.com/company/defense-pow-mia-accounting-agency.
From: DPAA
NCR OC Mailbox Public Affairs <dpaa.ncr.oc.mbx.public-affairs@mail.mil>
Sent: 11 July, 2023 10:18
Subject: DPAA News Release - Georgia Soldier Accounted For From
Korea
Greetings,
Cpl. Rewis was accounted for in October 2022, but his family only recently received their full briefing on his identification, which is why this release is going out now.
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July 11, 2023
WASHINGTON—The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Army Cpl. Dewey E. Rewis Jr., 18, of Waycross, Georgia, who died as a prisoner of war during the Korean War, was accounted for Oct. 25, 2022.
In late 1950, Rewis was a member of Battery D, 15th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Automatic Weapons Battalion, 31st Regimental Combat Team, 7th Infantry Division. He was reported missing in action on Dec. 2, 1950, after his unit were advancing along the eastern banks of the Chosin Reservoir, in North Korea, when they came under attack. In 1953, four POWs returned during Operation Big Switch reported Rewis had been a prisoner of war and died in March 1951 at an area called Death Valley; it was not an established POW Camp but a collection point for United Nations prisoners.
In the late summer and fall of 1954, during Operation Glory, North Korea returned remains reportedly recovered in an area north of the Chosin Reservoir known as Death Valley, to the United Nations Command (UNC). However, Rewis’ name did not appear on any of the transfer rosters and the Central Identification Unit in Kokura, Japan, did not associate any repatriated remains with him. Rewis was determined to be non-recoverable on Jan. 16, 1956.
On Dec. 1, 1993, North Korea turned over 33 boxes of remains to the UNC, which sent them to the Central Identification Lab in Hawaii to undergo forensic analysis. In 2007 one of the three sets of remains was identified as a 31st RCT soldier killed near the Chosin Reservoir.
To identify Rewis’ remains, scientists from DPAA used dental and anthropological analysis, as well as circumstantial evidence. Additionally, scientists from the Armed Forces Medical Examiner System used mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA), and Y chromosome (Y-STR), analysis.
Rewis’ name is recorded on the American Battle Monuments Commission’s Courts of the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in Honolulu, along with the others who are still missing from the Korean War. A rosette will be placed next to his name to indicate he has been accounted for.
Rewis, will be buried in Echols County, Georgia on a date yet to be determined.
For family and funeral information, contact the Army Casualty Office at (800) 892-2490.
To see the most up-to-date statistics on DPAA recovery efforts for those unaccounted for from the Korean War, go to the Korean War Accounting page on the DPAA website at: https://dpaa-mil.sites.crmforce.mil/dpaaFamWebKorean.
For additional information on the Defense Department’s mission to account for Americans who went missing while serving our country, visit the DPAA website at www.dpaa.mil, or find us on social media at www.facebook.com/dodpaa or https://www.linkedin.com/company/defense-pow-mia-accounting-agency.
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Soldier Accounted For From
Korean War (Garcia, C.)
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that Army Sgt.
Cresenciano Garcia, Jr., 22, of Laredo, Texas, died as a
prisoner of ...
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Local WWII soldier's body
missing for 2 decades to be laid to rest | WPRI.com
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA) identified the remains of Army
Pfc. George B. Thomas back in March. Thomas had been
missing in action ...
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From: DPAA
NCR OC Mailbox Public Affairs <dpaa.ncr.oc.mbx.public-affairs@mail.mil>
Sent: 10 July, 2023 10:37
Subject: DPAA News Release - Texas Soldier Accounted For From
Korea
Greetings,
Sgt. Garcia was accounted for in April, but his family only recently received their full briefing on his identification, which is why this release is going out now.
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July 10, 2023
WASHINGTON—The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that Army Sgt. Cresenciano Garcia, Jr., 22, of Laredo, Texas, died as a prisoner of war during the Korean War, was accounted for Apr. 25, 2023.
In August 1950, Garcia was a member of Headquarters Company, 9th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Infantry Division. He was reported missing in action on Dec. 1 during a battle just south of Kunu-ri, South Korea. His remains could not be immediately recovered and was officially declared dead on or around February 28, 1951 in POW Camp 5, in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (D.P.R.K.).
In 1954 the opposing nations reached an agreement to exchange war dead, the execution of which was known as Operation GLORY. Remains were sent to the Central Identification Unit, Kokura, Japan, for processing and identification. One set of Unknown Remains, designated X-14189, was reportedly recovered from Ch’angsong (Camp 1), D.P.R.K., and could not be identified after analysis. While that location is inconsistent with Sergeant Garcia’s reported location of death at Pyoktong (Camp 5), it is possible that remains from Camp 1 and 5 exhumations were inadvertently mixed when delivered during Operation GLORY. The remains were later transported with all the unidentified Korean War remains and buried as Unknowns at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, also known as the Punchbowl, in Honolulu, Hawaii, in 1956.
On Dec. 9, 2019, DPAA personnel exhumed Unknown Remains X-14189 for further scientific testing and analysis. Further research by a DPAA historian and forensic anthropologist determined the remains could possibly be associated with Garcia. The remains were disinterred and sent to the DPAA Laboratory for analysis.
To identify Garcia’s remains, scientists from DPAA used dental and anthropological analysis, as well as circumstantial evidence. Additionally, scientists from the Armed Forces Medical Examiner System used mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) analysis.
Garcia’s name is recorded on the Courts of the Missing at the Punchbowl, along with the others who are still missing from the Korean War. A rosette will be placed next to his name to indicate he has been accounted for.
Garcia will be buried in Laredo, Texas on Oct. 14, 2023.
For family and funeral information, contact the Army Casualty Office at (800) 892-2490.
To see the most up-to-date statistics on DPAA recovery efforts for those unaccounted for from the Korean War, go to the Korean War fact sheet on the DPAA website at:
For additional information on the Defense Department’s mission to account for Americans who went missing while serving our country, visit the DPAA website at www.dpaa.mil, find us on social media at www.facebook.com/dodpaa or https://www.linkedin.com/company/defense-pow-mia-accounting-agency.
Garcia’s personnel profile can be viewed at https://dpaa-mil.sites.crmforce.mil/dpaaProfile?id=a0Jt000000bRB6yEAG.
WWII sailor remains returned to
NJ nearly 80 years after battle crash - New York Post
Defense POW/MIA Accounting
Agency. After almost 80 years, a World War II sailor's
remains once declared “non-recoverable” were returned to
his New ...
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Korean War US Army Sergeant to
be honored in Mt. Vernon | News | wsiltv.com
The Department of Defense POW/
MIA Accounting Agency disinterred 652 Korean War
Veterans from the National Cemetery in 2018. and
Sergeant Malcolm ...
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He was shot down in the
Pacific Ocean in WWII. Almost 80 years later, his remains are
finally home
Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency. CNN —. Almost 80 years after
Anthony Di Petta's plane was shot down by enemy fire
in World War II and over 70 ...
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He was shot down in the
Pacific Ocean in WWII. Almost 80 years later, his remains are
finally ... - AOL
Di Petta, from Nutley, New Jersey,
served as a US Navy Aviation Ordnanceman during
World War II, according to a news release from the
Defense POW/MIA ...
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Vietnam War pilot returns home
| News | enidnews.com
De Soto was accounted for by the
Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency on March 23,
2023, and returned to his family for burial with full
military ...
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US Now Aiding Vietnam in
Finding the Country's Missing in Action from Past Conflict ...
POW/MIA
patches sit on a table during a POW/MIA
ceremony on Sept. 16, 2022, at Nellis Air Force
Base, Nevada. (Jordan McCoy/U.S. Air Force).
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Russian Cruise Missile
Attack on Ukraine City of Lviv Kills 6 People and Injures Dozens
POW/MIA
patches sit on a table during a POW/MIA
ceremony. US Now Aiding Vietnam in Finding the
Country's Missing in Action from Past Conflict ...
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Vietnam War pilot returns
home - Aerotech News & Review
De Soto was accounted for by the
Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency on
March 23, 2023, and returned to his family for
burial with full military honors.
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After nearly 80 years of
waiting, Nutley World War II hero's remains are coming home next
week
In partnership with the Defense
POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA), Project
Recover found MIAs from the Avenger during their
first MIA Recovery ...
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US Air Force pilot missing
from Vietnam War finally returns home - Audacy
Ernest L. De Soto at Golden Gate
National Cemetery, San Bruno, California, June 30,
2023, De Soto was accounted for by the Defense
POW/MIA ...
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Air Force Museum to offer free
presentation honoring the end of the Southeast Asia War
... the repatriation airlift
that got the POWs home, including relevant ... and facts
about POW/MIA accounting and return to normal
life after the ...
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Motorcycle escort for
fallen World War II veteran postponed | Stars and Stripes
WWII veteran David M. Lewis (Defense
POW/MIA Accounting Agency). (Tribune
News Service) — A motorcycle escort to the final
resting place for an ...
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Story research makes
connection | Warwick Beacon
Bracelet
to remember Vietnam POW Kenneth Goff brings
people together after all these years ... More than
45 years ago, Patricia Berkheimer, now of ...
Story research
makes connection | Johnston Sun Rise
Vietnam POW Kenneth Goff ...
It's about the POW that's my brother." ...
As long as the POW/MIA
bracelets exist, that last page of Vietnam
will ...
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Remains of WWII soldier who
died in POW camp after Bataan Death March to be buried in
California
In June 2018, the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency began analyzing the remains at a
laboratory at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam in
Hawaii.
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Area Korean War POW
has remains identified and being returned for visitation and
burial
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA) initially confirmed the
identification had been made on October 25th of last
year as part of the 'No ...
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A final resting place in
Kansas for soldier who died in WWII - Hays Post
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced that 22-year-old
U.S. Army Sgt. Knoll was accounted for earlier this
year. Photo Finney Co.
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Korean War POW laid
to rest at diocesan cemetery - Catholic Star Herald -
In September 2019, a project led by
the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency
(DPAA) saw those unidentified remains disinterred
from the cemetery and ...
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National Naval Aviation
Museum turns 60 | Photos - Pensacola News Journal
... POW/MIA Museum.
military. Restored Navy jet honors downed pilot
Speicher at POW/MIA Museum. |. F/A 18
at POW/MIA museum honors Scott
Speicher.
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A bracelet bought 50
years ago leads to connection with Vietnam prisoner of war
- WCPO
Janet carried a bracelet with
POW Captain Thomas Hanton's name on it during
the Vietnam War. Decades later, she found out he was
still alive.
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A bracelet bought 50
years ago leads to connection with Vietnam POW - YouTube
Janet Stemmle wore a bracelet
with POW Captain Thomas Hanton's name on it
during and after the Vietnam War. Decades later, she
found out on World ...
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Remains of WWII soldier
from RI ID'd decades after death in Germany - The Providence
Journal
... year by circumstantial evidence
as well as anthropological and mitochondrial DNA
analysis, the DOD's Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency said.
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Magazines | TRP
07/02/2023
Ex-US Navy Seal nabbed in KLIA with unloaded magazines out on bail, say cops | The Star
Police say ex-US Navy Seal out on bail following arrest over ammo
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From: DPAA
NCR OC Mailbox Public Affairs <dpaa.ncr.oc.mbx.public-affairs@mail.mil>
Sent: 7 July, 2023 12:22
Subject: DPAA News Release - Vermont Soldier Accounted For From
WWII
Greetings,
Pfc. Barrett was accounted for in July 2022, but his family only recently received their full briefing on his identification, which is why this release is going out now.
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July 7, 2023
WASHINGTON—The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that Army Pfc. Arthur C. Barrett, 27, of Swanton, Vermont, who was captured and died as a prisoner of war during World War II, was accounted for July 20, 2022.
In late 1941, Barrett was a member of the 31st Infantry Regiment, when Japanese forces invaded the Philippine Islands in December. Intense fighting continued until the surrender of the Bataan peninsula on April 9, 1942, and of Corregidor Island on May 6, 1942.
Thousands of U.S. and Filipino service members were captured and interned at POW camps. Barrett was among those reported captured when U.S. forces in Bataan surrendered to the Japanese. They were subjected to the 65-mile Bataan Death March and then held at the Cabanatuan POW camp. More than 2,500 POWs perished in this camp during the war.
According to prison camp and other historical records, Barrett died July 19, 1942, and was buried along with other deceased prisoners in the local Cabanatuan Camp Cemetery in Common Grave 312.
Following the war, American Graves Registration Service (AGRS) personnel exhumed those buried at the Cabanatuan cemetery and relocated the remains to a temporary U.S. military mausoleum near Manila. In 1947, the AGRS examined the remains in an attempt to identify them. Twelve of the sets of remains from Common Grave 312 were identified, but the rest were declared unidentifiable. The unidentified remains were buried at the Manila American Cemetery and Memorial (MACM) as Unknowns.
In January 2018, the remains associated with Common Grave 312 were disinterred and sent to the DPAA laboratory at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii, for analysis.
To identify Barrett’s remains, scientists from DPAA used anthropological analysis as well as circumstantial evidence. Additionally, scientists from the Armed Forces Medical Examiner System used mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) analysis.
Although interred as an Unknown in MACM, Barrett’s grave was meticulously cared for over the past 70 years by the American Battle Monuments Commission (ABMC).
Barrett will be buried in Arlington National Cemetery on a date yet to be determined.
For family and funeral information, contact the Army Casualty Office at (800) 892-2490.
DPAA is grateful to the ABMC and the United States Army for their partnership in this mission.
For additional information on the Defense Department’s mission to account for Americans who went missing while serving our country, visit the DPAA website at www.dpaa.mil, find us on social media at www.facebook.com/dodpaa or https://www.linkedin.com/company/defense-pow-mia-accounting-agency.
Barrett’s personnel profile can be viewed at https://dpaa.secure.force.com/dpaaProfile?id=a0Jt0000000Xf79EAC.
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California woman whose husband
vanished in Vietnam in 1969 finally discovers what ...
According to the POW Network, the
Vietnam Office for Seeking Missing Persons reported
finding Col. Ernest De Soto's remains, life support
equipment ...
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Vietnam War pilot returns
home > Air Force > Article Display - AF.mil
On March 23, 2023, the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency identified the remains as
belonging to De Soto and Hall. De Soto was
posthumously promoted to ...
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Webcast - DAY 2: Vietnam
War Annual Government Brief 2023 - DVIDS
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency conducts a series of government
briefings and updates to families of American
service members who served in the ...
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Missing in action since
1950, Mt. Vernon soldier's remains coming home | WMIX
In July 2018, the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency planned to disinter 652 Korean War
unknowns from the National Memorial Cemetery of the
Pacific in ...
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The legend of Billy Waugh: Former Special Forces soldier, CIA contractor remembered
Desmond Doss Was the Only Conscientious Objector to Receive the Medal of Honor in World War II
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Nevada veteran's unexpected
detainment in Malaysia sparks wife's emotional plea for help
(TND) — U.S. citizen and Navy
veteran Ryan Bates was abruptly detained at a Malaysian
airport on ... My son is a decorated Navy Seal
veteran.
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Remains of soldier killed
in Korean War finally home in Valentine - Lincoln Journal Star
MIA Pfc. Dale Thompson finally home
in Valentine. ... Reservoir in North Korea,
according to the United States Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency.
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Wisconsin WWII veteran to be
buried Friday in Beloit | News | wkow.com
14, 1945, at age 21, while his
unit was on patrol near Obermuhlthal, France, according to a
release from the Department of Defense POW/MIA ...
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Flags at half-staff June 30 in
honor of City Point WWII soldier - Wisconsin Rapids City Times
In 2006 and 2007, Private First
Class Koloski's identification tags were found near
Obermuhlthal, and in 2016, the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting ...
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Army Pfc. Koloski killed in
France during WWII accounted for - Audacy
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced that U.S. Army
Pfc. Clinton P. Koloski, 21, of City Point,
Wisconsin, killed during World ...
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The two men were participants in
Flag City Honor Flight. A conversation led them to
realize their connection from their service during the
Vietnam ...
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Korean War soldier's
remains to be buried in Mount Vernon - WPSD Local 6
But in July 2018, the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency proposed a plan to disinter 652
Korean War unknowns from the National Memorial
Cemetery of ...
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Unknown WWII Soldier
Identified, Headed Home To Wisconsin For Burial - Patch
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency said they accounted for 21-year-old Army
Pfc. Clinton P. Koloski, originally from City Point, in
September ...
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Flags to half-staff Friday
for fallen WWII soldier's burial - WMTV
An excavation ten years later by the
Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency did
not locate any remains. In 2020, however, remains
were exhumed from the ...
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Flags to fly at half-staff
Friday for burial of WWII soldier's remains | News |
channel3000.com
Koloski's identification tags were
found more than 15 years ago; in 2016, the U.S.
Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency
excavated the site where ...
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MIA
Pfc. Dale Thompson finally home in Valentine; Memorial service
11 a.m. Friday
2, 1950, during a battle near the
Chosin Reservoir in North Korea, according to the
United States Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency.
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https://www.warhistoryonline.com/vietnam-war/charles-robert-jenkins.html
After Defecting to North Korea, Charles Robert
Jenkins Was Held Prisoner for Over 39 Years
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https://www.warhistoryonline.com/world-war-ii/andras-toma.html Photo Credit: East News / Liaison / Getty Images The end of World War II was a logistical nightmare. Between Victory In Europe (VE) Day and September 1945, some 1,417,850 Americans alone were repatriated. Other countries also had to figure out what to do with the vast numbers of prisoners of war (POWs) they’d captured, all while welcoming home their own servicemen. With such high numbers, some were bound to slip through the cracks. One man, András Toma, wasn’t sent home until 2000. |
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Remains of World War II
veteran to be buried in Garden City - KWCH
Later, a historian with the Defense
POW/MIA Accounting Agency determined
one set of unidentified remains, designated X-2519
Neuville, recovered at ...
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Army Pvt. Whipple, who died
as a WWII POW, accounted for - Audacy
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced recently that
U.S. Army Pvt. David S. Whipple, 23, of Plymouth,
Indiana, who was captured ...
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During military flyover,
Alpena woman recalls her brother's sacrifice | News, Sports,
Jobs
Today, the U.S. Department of Defense
POW/MIA Accounting Agency shows
Chapman's status as unaccounted for. The crash
occurred eight days before ...
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Kansas soldier killed in
WWII to be buried in hometown of Garden City - KAKE
After being declared non-recoverable
in 1951, Knoll was accounted for by the Defense
POW/MIA Accounting Agency on Jan. 3,
2023.
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5th anniversary of
Singapore Summit: What's been achieved and what's failed
Fourth, the United States and North
Korea commit to the recovery of POW/MIA
remains, including the immediate repatriation of
those already ...
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From: DPAA NCR OC Mailbox Public Affairs <dpaa.ncr.oc.mbx.public-affairs@mail.mil>
Sent: 27 June, 2023 10:17
Subject: DPAA News Release - New York Pilot Accounted For From
WWII
Greetings,
1st Lt. Schmidt was accounted for in September 2022, but his family only recently received their full briefing on his identification, which is why this release is going out now.
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The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Army Air Forces 1st Lt. Paul W. Schmidt, 20, of Rockville Center, New York, killed during World War II, was accounted for Sept. 28, 2022.
In March 1945, Schmidt was assigned to 161st Tactical Reconnaissance Squadron, 363rd Tactical Reconnaissance Group, 8th Air Force. His squadron was engaged with attacking German lines of transportation along the Rhine River. On March 23, Schmidt was attacking an enemy train near Sendenhorst, Germany, in his F-6D, a reconnaissance version of the P-51 Mustang fighter. His wingman reported he last saw Schmidt attacking the train, but he was never seen or heard from again. Schmidt was declared missing in action, but the Germans never reported him as a prisoner of war. On March 24, 1946, with no evidence Schmidt survived the fighting, the War Department issued a presumptive finding of death.
In May 1945, an American graves registration team conducted an investigation in the Warendorf area and recovered a set of unidentified remains, later designated X-635 Margraten. There was insufficient evidence to make an identification.
While studying unresolved American losses in the Warendorf area in September 2016, DPAA historians determined X-635 Margraten could be associated with Schmidt. The remains, buried as an Unknown at the Netherlands American Cemetery, an American Battle Monuments Commission site in Margraten, Netherlands, were disinterred in June 2018 and sent to the DPAA laboratory for identification.
To identify Schmidt’s remains, scientists from DPAA used anthropological analysis, as well as circumstantial evidence. Additionally, scientists from the Armed Forces Medical Examiner System used mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) analysis.
Schmidt’s name is recorded on the Walls of the Missing at Lorraine American Cemetery, an American Battle Monuments Commission site in St. Avold, France, along with the others still missing from World War II. A rosette will be placed next to his name to indicate he has been accounted for.
Schmidt will be buried in Arlington National Cemetery, on a date later to be determined.
For family and funeral information, contact the Army Casualty Office at (800) 892-2490.
DPAA is grateful to the American Battle Monuments Commission and to the U.S. Army Regional Mortuary-Europe/Africa for their partnership in this mission.
For additional information on the Defense Department’s mission to account for Americans who went missing while serving our country, visit the DPAA website at www.dpaa.mil, find us on social media at www.facebook.com/dodpaa or https://www.linkedin.com/company/defense-pow-mia-accounting-agency.
Schmidt’s personnel profile can be viewed at https://dpaa-mil.sites.crmforce.mil/dpaaProfile?id=a0Jt000000RlYL8EAN
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Remains Of Two WWII Servicemen From
Kentucky Identified And Returning For Burial
However, in 2015, the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA) using mtDNA, dental and other records,
made a positive ID of Lawrence and though ...
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Fallen soldier recovery
rebuilds connections in Laos - DVIDS
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency travels worldwide for missions to
recover fallen soldiers from historical conflicts.
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Soldier Accounted For From
World War II (Thomas, G.)
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that Army
Pfc. George B. Thomas, 31, of East Providence, Rhode
Island, killed during ...
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Pentagon honors POWs/MIAs
at poster unveiling - Aerotech News & Review
A poster highlighting National POW/MIA
Recognition Day. Dignitaries, friends and family
members of prisoners of war and troops missing in
action ...
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US Army Cpl. Barlosky, a
World War II POW, accounted for - Audacy
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced recently that
U.S. Army Cpl. Leo J. Barlosky, 24, of Audenried,
Pennsylvania, ...
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WWII Air Force Pilot's
Remains Accounted For - Yonkers Times
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced on June 23 that
U.S. Army Air Forces 1st Lt. Paul W. Schmidt, 20, of
Rockville Center, ...
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US soldier' remains
repatriated from Vietnam | Society | Vietnam+ (VietnamPlus)
... a US servicemember missing in
action (MIA) from the war in Vietnam was ... over
the remains to the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA).
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Remains of Korean War soldier
to be buried in Valentine, Nebraska - KSNB
28, 2022, by the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency. His name is recorded on the American
Battle Monuments Commission's Courts of the Missing at ...
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Vietnam repatriates US
soldier's remains - VnExpress International
The Vietnam Office for Seeking
Missing Persons and Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA) under the U.S. Department
of Defense held the 161st ...
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Remains Of Valentine Korean
War MIA Returning Home – KCSR / KBPY
After 4 years of painstaking research
and DNA testing, Thompson's remains were identified
last November by the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency.
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June 26,
2023 Korean War soldier's remains return to Nebraska for long-awaited burial | KHGI
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency officially accounted for him on November
28, 2022. Thompson's name is currently inscribed on the
American Battle ...
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Kentucky WWII Veteran will
return home for final burial after 80 years - WDKY
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced Monday that U.S. Army
Pvt. J.C. Brooks, of Rockfield, Kentucky, who was killed
during World ...
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Miamisburg soldier
accounted for from Korean War - The Highland County Press
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced May 31 that U.S.
Army Pfc. Billy A. DeBord, 18, of Miamisburg, Ohio,
who was killed during ...
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June 25,
2023 54 years later: Missing Vietnam pilot, North Carolina native accounted for - WSOC TV
— The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced Saturday that U.S. Air
Force Capt. Frederick M. Hall, 25, of Waynesville, North
Carolina is ...
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Offutt funding advances,
Senate advances ag research facility - RIVER COUNTRY
$5 million would establish a POW/MIA
accounting agency, $7 million would replace vehicle
search facilities and $3 million would build a
base ...
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Offutt funding advances,
Senate advances ag research facility - CENTRAL
Fischer also announced the
advancement of a funding bill for Offutt Air Force
Base construction. $5 million would establish a
POW/MIA accounting ...
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Local Rolling Thunder
Chapter raises money to feed veterans in honor of POW and
MIA
Multiple displays were set up showing
photos and names of MIA and POW
servicemen from all over Ohio, many of them from
Lima.
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54 years later: Missing
Vietnam pilot, North Carolina native accounted for - Yahoo News
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced Saturday that
U.S. Air Force Capt. Frederick M. Hall, 25, of
Waynesville, North Carolina is ...
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From:
DPAA NCR OC Mailbox Public Affairs <dpaa.ncr.oc.mbx.public-affairs@mail.mil>
Sent: 26 June, 2023 14:46
Subject: DPAA News Release - Kentucky Soldier Accounted For From
WWII
Greetings,
Private Brooks was accounted for in September 2022, but his family only recently received their full briefing on his identification, which is why this release is going out now.
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The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Army Pvt. J.C. Brooks, 19, of Rockfield, Kentucky, who was killed during World War II, was accounted for Sept. 27, 2022.
In the summer of 1943, Brooks was a member of Company I, 39th Infantry Regiment, 9th Infantry Division. His unit was part of Operation HUSKY, the Allied effort from July 10 to Aug. 17 to capture Sicily from Benito Mussolini’s fascist Italian regime. Brooks was killed during the Battle of Troina on Aug. 1 while leading an advance against German forces as first scout. He was unable to be recovered because of the fighting.
The American Graves Registration Command (AGRC) was charged with recovering the remains of fallen service members in the European Theater following the war. Though they searched the area near Troina, they were unable to find remains that could be identified as Brooks. He was declared non-recoverable on April 9, 1947.
In 2016, DPAA historians began to investigate U.S. losses from the 1943 invasion of Sicily. During this research, one Unknown, X-22227 Monte Soprano, was a candidate to match Brooks. After extensive research and record comparison by DPAA historians and analysts, X-22227 was disinterred in June 2019 and sent to the DPAA Laboratory at Offutt Air Force Base, Nebraska, for analysis.
To identify Brooks’ remains, scientists from DPAA used dental and anthropological analysis, as well as circumstantial evidence. Additionally, scientists from the Armed Forces Medical Examiner System used mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) analysis.
Brooks’ name is recorded on the Walls of the Missing at the Sicily-Rome American Cemetery, an American Battle Monuments Commission site in Nettuno, Italy, along with others still missing from WWII. A rosette will be placed next to his name to indicate he has been accounted for.
Brooks will be buried September 24, 2023, in Cecilia, Kentucky.
For family and funeral information, contact the Army Casualty Office at (800) 892-2490.
DPAA is grateful to the American Battle Monuments Commission and to the U.S. Army Regional Mortuary-Europe/Africa for their partnership in this mission.
For additional information on the Defense Department’s mission to account for Americans who went missing while serving our country, visit the DPAA website at www.dpaa.mil or find us on social media at www.facebook.com/dodpaa or https://www.linkedin.com/company/defense-pow-mia-accounting-agency.
Brooks’ personnel profile can be viewed at https://dpaa-mil.sites.crmforce.mil/dpaaProfile?id=a0Jt000001nzPkIEAU.
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Pentagon Honors POWs/MIAs at
Poster Unveiling - Department of Defense
Emil Kapaun, Korean War prisoner of
war and posthumous Medal of Honor recipient; and retired
Air Force Col. Michael Brazelton, a Vietnam POW, ...
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WWII veteran buried at Kentucky
Veterans Cemetery after nearly 80 years in unmarked ...
The Defense Prisoner of War/Missing in
Action (POW/MIA) Accounting Agency
disinterred Adams' remains. Through new DNA technology,
they were able ...
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How heroes come home | A look
at the science that helped identify fallen Southern Illinois
soldiers
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA), which identifies fallen U.S.
service members of past wars, made positive identifications
of two ...
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Remains of World War II
soldier identified, returning for burial in Beloit | News |
wrex.com
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency said that they've identified the
remains of U.S. Army Pfc. Clinton P. Koloski, 21, of
City Point, Wisconsin.
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-12221985/Is-legendary-HMS-Triumph-Shipwreck-Aegean-Sea.html
Is THIS the legendary HMS Triumph? Diver claims to have discovered wreck of
top-secret WWII sub 81 years after striking mine and sinking off coast of
Greece... bodies of 64 Brit sailors may still be buried on board, 670ft deep
Stunning new video footage shows the wreck at the bottom of the Aegean Sea, about tens of kilometers off the coast of Cape Sounion. The 275-foot ship was operating off the coast of Greece when it vanished without a trace somewhere in the Aegean under mysterious circumstances in January 1942, although experts think it struck a mine or was hit by a torpedo. The exact location of the wreck has not been disclosed, but it is believed to be at a depth of about 203 meters (666 feet) 'tens of thousands' of kilometres off Cape Sounion (left)....
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....When she unearthed the 3-foot-long mystery piece, Jessen discovered an engraving on one end that read “Major William Hodgson, crashed with F80 jet, Feb. 26, 1958.”
The metal found in the hollow is believed to be a piece of wreckage from the jet’s crash, later engraved by the land’s then-owner to mark the crash site, she said.
Hodgson had been flying for United Airlines and was a member of the Colorado Air National Guard.....
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Dana soldier killed in France
during World War II to be interred June 23 - Tribune-Star
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency announced Tuesday that the remains of U.S.
Army Pfc. Leonard E. Adams, 25, of Dana, Indiana, will
interred ...
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Remains of WWII Soldier,
DFC recipient, buried in Arkansas - Aerotech News & Review
Kolb's remains were identified by
scientists from the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency using anthropological analysis, as
well as circumstantial ...
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Long lost dog tag
repatriated | The American Legion
... to help a Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency project with Colorado State
University to search for the remains of B17 pilot
Lt. George Wilson.
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Family honors, buries
fallen East TN WWII soldier in home soil - WBIR.com
... were accounted for last year
through the work of the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency, ... Corporal Joe Vinyard MIA/KIA
Hurtgen Forest 1944.
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From: DPAA NCR OC
Mailbox Public Affairs <dpaa.ncr.oc.mbx.public-affairs@mail.mil>
Sent: 22 June, 2023 06:10
Subject: DPAA News Release - Wisconsin Soldier Accounted For From
WWII
Greetings,
Pfc. Koloski was accounted for in September 2022, but his family only recently received their full briefing on his identification, which is why this release is going out now.
June 22, 2023
WASHINGTON—The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Army Pfc. Clinton P. Koloski, 21, of City Point, Wisconsin, killed during World War II, was accounted for Sept. 12, 2022.
In January 1945, Koloski was assigned to Company A, 36th Engineer Combat Regiment. On Jan. 14, the unit was on patrol near Obermuhlthal, France, when it encountered German soldiers in fortified positions. At some point during the fighting, Koloski was killed, but historical records do not indicate exactly where. Due to the fighting, his body was unable to be immediately recovered.
Beginning in 1947, the American Graves Registration Command (AGRC), the organization that searched for and recovered fallen American personnel in the European Theater, searched the area around Obermuhlthal, finding the remains of an American Soldier near remains of another 36th Engineer Combat Regiment Soldier who was killed the same day as Koloski. These remains, designated X-4890, were tentatively associated with Koloski, but an AGRC investigator believed the dental association between Koloski and the remains was questionable, so X-4890 was buried as an Unknown at what is today Rhône American Cemetery, an American Battle Monuments Commission site near Draguignan, France, in October 1951.
In 2006 and 2007, Koloski’s identification tags were found in the forest near Obermuhlthal and reported to the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command (JPAC), a DPAA predecessor organization. JPAC sent an investigation team to the site in October 2009 and DPAA sent a recovery team in April 2016, but no other evidence associated with Koloski was found.
DPAA historians have been conducting on-going research into Soldiers missing from combat around Obermuhlthal, and found that X-4890 could be associated with Koloski based on where the remains and ID tags were recovered. X-6373 was disinterred in February 2020 and transferred to the DPAA Laboratory at Offutt Air Force Base, Nebraska, for analysis.
To identify Koloski’s remains, scientists from DPAA used dental and anthropological analysis, as well as material and circumstantial evidence. Additionally, scientists from the Armed Forces Medical Examiner System used mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA), Y chromosome DNA (Y-STR), and autosomal DNA (auSTR) analysis.
Koloski’s name is recorded on the Walls of the Missing at Epinal American Cemetery, an American Battle Monuments Commission site in Dinozé, France, along with others still missing from WWII. A rosette will be placed next to his name to indicate he has been accounted for.
Koloski will be buried on June 30, 2023, in Beloit, Wisconsin.
For family and funeral information, contact the Army Casualty Office at (800) 892-2490.
For additional information on the Defense Department’s mission to account for Americans who went missing while serving our country, visit the DPAA website at www.dpaa.mil or find us on social media at www.facebook.com/dodpaa or https://www.linkedin.com/company/defense-pow-mia-accounting-agency.
Koloski’s personnel profile can be viewed at https://dpaa-mil.sites.crmforce.mil/dpaaProfile?id=a0Jt0000000XeyBEAS.
Welcome HOME Sgt. Malcom!
From:
DPAA NCR OC Mailbox Public Affairs <dpaa.ncr.oc.mbx.public-affairs@mail.mil>
Sent: 20 June, 2023 09:42
Subject: DPAA News Release - Illinois Soldier Accounted
For From Korean War
Greetings,
SGT Malcolm was accounted for in October 2022, but his family only recently received their full briefing on his identification, which is why this release is going out now.
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Army Sgt. Howard G. Malcolm, 23, of Mount Vernon, Illinois, who died as a prisoner of war during the Korean War, was accounted for Oct. 25, 2022.
In late 1950, Malcolm was a member of Headquarters Company, Ninth Infantry Regiment, 2nd Infantry Division. He was reported missing in action on Dec. 1, 1950, after his unit’s withdrawal from Kunu-ri to Sunchon, in North Korea. In 1953, several POWs returned during Operation Big Switch reported Malcolm had been a prisoner of war and died in August 1951 at Prisoner of War Camp #5.
In the late summer and fall of 1954, during Operation Glory, North Korea returned remains reportedly recovered from Pyoktong, also known as Prisoner of War Camp #5, to the United Nations Command. However, Malcolm’s name did not appear on any of the transfer rosters and the Central Identification Unit in Kokura, Japan, did not associate any repatriated remains with him. Malcolm was determined non-recoverable in October 1955.
In July 2018, the DPAA proposed a plan to disinter 652 Korean War Unknowns from the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, known as the Punchbowl, in Honolulu. In August 2019, the DPAA disinterred Unknown X-14357, a set of remains returned during Operation Glory, as part of Phase Two of the Korean War Disinterment Plan and sent the remains to the DPAA laboratory for analysis.
To identify Malcolm’s remains, scientists from DPAA used dental and anthropological analysis as well as chest radiograph comparison. Additionally, scientists from the Armed Forces Medical Examiner System used mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) analysis.
Malcolm’s name is recorded on the Courts of the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in Honolulu, along with the others who are still missing from the Korean War. A rosette will be placed next to his name to indicate he has been accounted for.
Malcolm will be buried in Mount Vernon, Illinois, on July 11, 2023.
For family and funeral information, contact the Army Casualty Office at (800) 892-2490.
To see the most up-to-date statistics on DPAA recovery efforts for those unaccounted for from the Korean War, go to the Korean War Accounting page on the DPAA website at: https://dpaa-mil.sites.crmforce.mil/dpaaFamWebKorean.
DPAA is grateful to the American Battle Monuments Commission and the United States Army for their partnership in this mission.
For additional information on the Defense Department’s mission to account for Americans who went missing while serving our country, visit the DPAA website at www.dpaa.mil, or find us on social media at www.facebook.com/dodpaa or https://www.linkedin.com/company/defense-pow-mia-accounting-agency.
Malcolm’s personnel profile can be viewed at https://dpaa-mil.sites.crmforce.mil/dpaaProfile?id=a0Jt0000009beTKEAY
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Remains identified: Korean War
soldier and orphan will rest in peace in Jacksonville
The military's Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency has been employing modern science to try to
identify the remains of service members killed in ...
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Letter: Float is important
reminder of history - The Sentinel
In response to Ms. Lankford's letter of
June 8 regarding the brutal image of the Carlisle
Vietnam Veteran's POW/MIA float, I must
disagree.
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| Subject: | Ukrainian soldier who was castrated while held prisoner back at front line 'to be away from women' | Daily Mail Online |
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Family honors, buries
fallen East TN WWII soldier in home soil - 11Alive
The remains were accounted for last
year through the work of the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency, according to the American Battle
Monuments ...
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23, 2022, the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA) confirmed. The remains of four of
the ten soldiers on board were recovered following the ...
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Port Richmond High School
honors U.S. Army pilot who was MIA for decades, buried 78
...
16, 2022, on National POW/MIA
Recognition Day, 78 years after his fighter plane
exploded. “It's fitting that we honor a fallen hero
from World War ...
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WWII SC Airman to be laid to
rest with full honors in Columbia cemetery - WACH
He was killed in August 1943
during a mission in Romania and finally accounted for in
September 2022. (US Defense POW/MIA Accounting
Agency).
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These Women Led the POW/MIA
Movement | RealClearDefense
These Women Led the POW/MIA
Movement. AP. On today's "Hot Wash," we talk to the
authors of a new book, “Unwavering: The Wives Who
Fought to Ensure ...
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The Women Behind the POW/MIA
Movement | RealClearDefense
Symbolized by the rapidly ubiquitous
black POW/MIA flags around the nation,
the movement fundamentally changed how America
thought about those ...
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WWII soldier returns to US
to be buried in Kentucky after nearly 80 years in an unmarked
grave
The Defense Prisoner of War/Missing
in Action (POW/MIA) Accounting Agency
disinterred his remains. Through new DNA technology,
they were able to ...
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Remains of WWII soldier coming home
today | Local News | thenewsenterprise.com
According to Human Resources Command
at Fort Knox, Adams was accounted for by the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency on July 20, 2022, ...
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An East Tennessee man went
missing in Germany in WWII. He'll be laid to rest in Maryville
Joe A. Vinyard will be interred June 17
at Grandview Cemetery according to the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency. Smith Funeral & Cremation
Services ...
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On Dec. 1, 1950, White was
captured by the Chinese People's Volunteer Forces and taken
to a Prisoner of War camp, according to the Defense POW/MIA ...
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Remains of WWII Soldier,
Distinguished Flying Cross recipient, buried in Arkansas
Kolb's remain were identified by
scientists from the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA) using anthropological
analysis, ...
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Soldier Accounted For From
World War II (Barlosky, L.)
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Army Cpl.
Leo J. Barlosky, 24, of Audenried, Pennsylvania, who was
captured ...
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WWII Army Air Forces radio
operator laid to rest in Arkansas hometown | Stars and Stripes
(Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency). For Staff Sgt. Kolb's nephew, Harold
Kolb Jr., it was welcomed news that his uncle was finally
accounted for.
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Remains of Pa. soldier who
died as POW in World War II identified - pennlive.com
His remains were recently identified
and he will be buried in Arlington National
Cemetery. Photo courtesy Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency.
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Remains of
Pennsylvania-born WWII U.S. Army Corporal identified 80 years
later - FOX43
WASHINGTON D.C., DC — The Defense
POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA)
announced Thursday that U.S. Army Cpl. Leo J.
Barlosky, 24, from Audenried, ...
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Remains of soldier killed
during WWII to be buried in Radcliff, Ky. - WTVQ
He was declared non-recoverable on
May 4, 1951. But decades later, historians with the
Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency
determined one set of remains ...
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Pennsylvania WWII soldier
accounted for, to be buried in Arlington - WTAJ
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced that U.S. Army
Cpl. Leo J. Barlosky, 24, of Audenried,
Pennsylvania, who was captured and ...
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Indiana WWII solider who died
at a prisoner of war camp identified - WRTV
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA) says U.S. Army Pvt. David Whipple
is now accounted for. Whipple was captured after months of
intense ...
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Hoosier soldier captured during
Bataan Death March identified - 95.3 MNC
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency says United States Army Private David
Whipple of Plymouth, was a member of the 27th Materiel
Squadron, ...
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Soldier Accounted for From
Korean War (Patten, C.) - Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S.
Army Cpl. Charles R. Patten, 24, killed during the
Korean War, ...
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Pennsylvania World War II
soldier identified 70 years after POW camp death - ABC27
The defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency announced on Thursday that US Army
Corporal Leo. J. Barlosky was identified and
accounted for.
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News - Long Overdue Honors
- DVIDS
To identify Kolb's remains,
scientists from the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA) used anthropological
analysis, as well as circumstantial ...
WW2 Arkansas
airman killed in 'Operation Tidal Wave' finally
brought home to rest | KATV
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency, or DPAA, announced
recently that Staff Sergeant Ralph Donald
Kolb was accounted for on September 14,
2022.
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Vintage 1944 biplane
highlights return of Father's Day Fly-in - Isanti-Chisago County
Star
There's even “POW MIA painted
on the prop. “I originally thought of a POW-MIA
theme, and it's kinda morphed into, I think a lot of
people, younger ...
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Illinois WWII Soldier's Remains
Returned 80 Years Later - Country Herald
HOOPESTON, IL - The Defense
POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced last
Thursday U.S. Army Air Forces Technical Sgt. Lawrence E.
Reitz, ...
Illinois airman who
died in World War II officially accounted for - Audacy
On Aug. 1, 1943, Reitz
was killed when the aircraft he was on was shot down
over Romania. Photo credit Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency.
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Indiana POW killed
in WWII identified 80 years after his death - WISH-TV
WASHINGTON (WISH) — The Defense
POW/MIA Accounting Agency, or DPAA,
announced in a release Wednesday that a soldier from
Plymouth, Indiana, ...
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Army Soldier Killed in
Vietnam Identified After 50 Years - The Messenger
... Credit: Defense POW/MIA
Accounting AgencyDefense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency. A soldier who died during the Vietnam
War finally will be laid to ...
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Nam-Pows CC: in the June issue of the Military Officer Magazine...
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Delbert White | Obituary |
Ottumwa Daily Courier
On September 27, 2022 the Defense
POW/MIA Accounting Agency identified the
remains of Corporal White, missing from the Korean
War.
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WWII Veteran's remains to
be buried at Elmwood Cemetery - ABC Columbia
His remains were identified by the
Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency.
Categories: Local News, News. Tags: Elmwood
Cemetery, Ralph Richardson Jr., ...
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From: DPAA NCR OC
Mailbox Public Affairs <dpaa.ncr.oc.mbx.public-affairs@mail.mil>
Sent: 15 June, 2023 12:11
Subject: DPAA News Release - Pennsylvania Soldier Accounted For
From World War II
Greetings,
Corporal Barlosky was accounted for in September 2022, but his family only recently received their full briefing on his identification, which is why this release is going out now.
June 15, 2023
WASHINGTON—The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Army Cpl. Leo J. Barlosky, 24, of Audenried, Pennsylvania, who was captured and died as a prisoner of war during World War II, was accounted for Sept. 27, 2022.
In late 1941, Barlosky was a member of the 7th Chemical Company, Aviation, when Japanese forces invaded the Philippine Islands in December. Intense fighting continued until the surrender of the Bataan peninsula on April 9, 1942, and of Corregidor Island on May 6, 1942.
Thousands of U.S. and Filipino service members were captured and interned at POW camps. Barlosky was among those reported captured when U.S. forces in Bataan surrendered to the Japanese. They were subjected to the 65-mile Bataan Death March and then held at the Cabanatuan POW camp. More than 2,500 POWs perished in this camp during the war.
According to prison camp and other historical records, Barlosky died July 27, 1942, and was buried along with other deceased prisoners in the local Cabanatuan Camp Cemetery in Common Grave 225.
Following the war, American Graves Registration Service (AGRS) personnel exhumed those buried at the Cabanatuan cemetery and relocated the remains to a temporary U.S. military mausoleum near Manila. In 1947, the AGRS examined the remains in an attempt to identify them. Three sets of remains from Common Grave 225 were identified, but the rest were declared unidentifiable. The unidentified remains were buried at the Manila American Cemetery and Memorial (MACM) as Unknowns.
In early 2018, the remains associated with Common Grave 225 were disinterred and sent to the DPAA laboratory at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii, for analysis.
To identify Barlosky’s remains, scientists from DPAA used dental and anthropological analysis, as well as circumstantial evidence. Additionally, scientists from the Armed Forces Medical Examiner System used mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) analysis.
Although interred as an Unknown in MACM, Barlosky’s grave was meticulously cared for over the past 70 years by the American Battle Monuments Commission (ABMC).
Barlosky will be buried in Arlington National Cemetary, on a date later to be determined.
For family and funeral information, contact the Army Casualty Office at (800) 892-2490.
DPAA is grateful to the ABMC and the United States Army for their partnership in this mission.
For additional information on the Defense Department’s mission to account for Americans who went missing while serving our country, visit the DPAA website at www.dpaa.mil, find us on social media at www.facebook.com/dodpaa or https://www.linkedin.com/company/defense-pow-mia-accounting-agency.
Barlosky’s personnel profile can be viewed at https://dpaa-mil.sites.crmforce.mil/dpaaProfile?id=a0Jt0000000XgVYEA0
From: DPAA NCR OC
Mailbox Public Affairs <dpaa.ncr.oc.mbx.public-affairs@mail.mil>
Sent: 14 June, 2023 13:25
Subject: DPAA News Release - Indiana Soldier Accounted For From
WWII
Greetings,
Pvt. Whipple was accounted for in August 2022, but his family only recently received their full briefing on his identification, which is why this release is going out now.
June 14, 2023
WASHINGTON—The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Army Pvt. David S. Whipple, 23, of Plymouth, Indiana, who was captured and died as a prisoner of war during World War II, was accounted for Aug. 15, 2022.
In late 1941, Whipple was a member of the 27th Materiel Squadron, 20th Air Base Group, when Japanese forces invaded the Philippine Islands in December. Intense fighting continued until the surrender of the Bataan peninsula on April 9, 1942, and of Corregidor Island on May 6, 1942.
Thousands of U.S. and Filipino service members were captured and interned at POW camps. Whipple was among those reported captured when U.S. forces in Bataan surrendered to the Japanese. They were subjected to the 65-mile Bataan Death March and then held at the Cabanatuan POW camp. More than 2,500 POWs perished in this camp during the war.
According to prison camp and other historical records, Whipple died July 26, 1942, and was buried along with other deceased prisoners in the local Cabanatuan Camp Cemetery in Common Grave 225.
Following the war, American Graves Registration Service (AGRS) personnel exhumed those buried at the Cabanatuan cemetery and relocated the remains to a temporary U.S. military mausoleum near Manila. In 1947, the AGRS examined the remains in an attempt to identify them. Three of the sets of remains from Common Grave 225 were identified, but the rest were declared unidentifiable. The unidentified remains were buried at the Manila American Cemetery and Memorial (MACM) as Unknowns.
In March 2018, the remains associated with Common Grave 225 were disinterred and sent to the DPAA laboratory at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii, for analysis.
To identify Whipple’s remains, scientists from DPAA used dental and anthropological analysis as well as circumstantial evidence. Additionally, scientists from the Armed Forces Medical Examiner System used mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) analysis.
Although interred as an Unknown in MACM, Whipple’s grave was meticulously cared for over the past 70 years by the American Battle Monuments Commission (ABMC).
Whipple will be buried in Arlington National Cemetery, on a date to be later determined.
For family and funeral information, contact the Army Casualty Office at (800) 892-2490.
DPAA is grateful to the ABMC and the United States Army for their partnership in this mission.
For additional information on the Defense Department’s mission to account for Americans who went missing while serving our country, visit the DPAA website at www.dpaa.mil, find us on social media at www.facebook.com/dodpaa or https://www.linkedin.com/company/defense-pow-mia-accounting-agency.
Whipple’s personnel profile can be viewed at https://dpaa-mil.sites.crmforce.mil/dpaaProfile?id=a0Jt0000000XmddEAC.
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After 80 years, project underway to
identify POWs
... News and Stories from the
Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency's Public Affairs
Office and ... After 80 years, project underway to identify
POWs.
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Remains of Korean War soldier
to be buried in Ottumwa - KTVO
However, two American POWs, who returned
in September 1953, said White died ... In October 2019,
during Phase 2 of the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting ...
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WWII soldier's remains
return to Blount County after 79 years | News |
thedailytimes.com
Courtesy of Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency.
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Morning digest June 8 |
Politics | Vietnam+ (VietnamPlus)
... received in Hanoi on June 7
Director of the US Defence Prisoners of War/Missing In
Action (POW/MIA) Accounting Agency Kelly K. Mc
Keague.
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Agreement will expand
efforts to account for missing service members | Newsroom
University of Nebraska President Ted
Carter, right, and Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency Director Kelly McKeague sign a
memorandum of ...
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Remains of U.S. Army
Corporal killed during Korean War land in Jacksonville ahead of
funeral
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced that Christie was
killed during the Korean War and only accounted for
as of July 28, 2022.
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Finding body of World War
II veteran is 'the most rewarding mission imaginable'
“The Defense POW-MIA
Accounting Agency began a project where they started
disinterring these unknown graves out of Manila
American cemetery,” he ...
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P.O.W.
from Portales who died during World War II will be buried
Thursday in his hometown | KVII
The army said he died of cerebral
malaria on Aug. 28, 1942. Long was accounted for
March 22, 2023 by the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency. Comment ...
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Vietnam and US forge
cooperation in war legacy settlement - Home | VOV.VN
Vietnamese Deputy Minister of
National Defense Sen. Lieut. Gen. Hoang Xuan Chien received
Kelly K. McKeague, director of the POW/MIA
Accounting ...
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Illinois Airman Accounted For
From World War II - Decatur Tribune
WASHINGTON—The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Army Air
Forces Technical Sgt. Lawrence E. Reitz, 22, ...
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Remains of WWII soldier to
be buried in Portales Thursday - News Channel 10
Long was accounted for by the Defense
POW/MIA Accounting Agency on March 22,
2023, according to a press release. Wheeler Funeral
Home in Portales ...
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Vietnam, US promote
cooperation in overcoming war consequences | SGGP English
Edition
... Defence Senior Lieutenant General
Hoang Xuan Chien on June 7 received Director of the
US Defence Prisoners of War/Missing In Action ((POW/MIA) ...
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USS Oklahoma Sailor, Park City
native accounted for from WW2 - WBKO
(WBKO) - The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced Tuesday that Navy
Seaman 1st Class Elmer P. Lawrence, 25, of Park
City, ...
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Agreement signed to help find
missing service members | News - norfolkneradio.com
LINCOLN - The University of
Nebraska System is teaming up with the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency to help identify U.S. service members
missing ...
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Airman Accounted For From
World War II (Reitz, L.)
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S.
Army Air Forces Technical Sgt. Lawrence E. Reitz,
22, of Hoopeston, ...
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The Korean War Was a
Senseless Waste of American Lives
According to the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency, of the more than 36,000 American
soldiers who died in the Korean War, more than 7,500
of them ...
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World War II soldier to be laid to rest after declared non-recoverable in 1951 - WMTV
Matuszak was accounted for over
60 years later by the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency on Sept. 7, 2022 after his remains were
identified using ...
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Commentary: As Henry
Kissinger turns 100, his hideous legacy still haunts our role in
the world
Former Secretary of State Henry
Kissinger responds to opening statements by members
of the Senate POW/MIA committee before
making his own opening ...
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Military burial honors
given 80 years after death of Odin man in World War II - WJBD
Kretzer was unaccounted for until
August 23rd, 2022 when the US military's Defense
POW/MIA Accounting Agency was able to
identify Kretzer through ...
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From:
DPAA NCR OC Mailbox Public Affairs
<dpaa.ncr.oc.mbx.public-affairs@mail.mil>
Sent: 6 June, 2023 09:54
Subject: DPAA News Release - Illinois Airman Accounted For From
WWII
Greetings,
Tech Sgt. Reitz was accounted for in May, but his family only recently received their full briefing on his identification, which is why this release is going out now.
June 6, 2023
WASHINGTON—The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Army Air Forces Technical Sgt. Lawrence E. Reitz, 22, of Hoopeston, Illinois, killed during World War II, was accounted for May 5, 2023.
In the summer of 1943, Reitz was assigned to 343d Bombardment Squadron (Heavy), 98th Bombardment Group (Heavy), 9th Air Force. On Aug. 1, 1943, the B-24 Liberator aircraft on which Reitz was serving as a radio operator crashed as a result of enemy anti-aircraft fire during Operation TIDAL WAVE, the largest bombing mission against the oil fields and refineries at Ploiesti, north of Bucharest, Romania. His remains were not identified following the war. The remains that could not be identified were buried as Unknowns in the Hero Section of the Civilian and Military Cemetery of Bolovan, Ploiesti, Prahova, Romania.
Following the war, the American Graves Registration Command (AGRC), the organization that searched for and recovered fallen American personnel, disinterred all American remains from the Bolovan Cemetery for identification. The AGRC was unable to identify more than 80 unknowns from Bolovan Cemetery, and those remains were permanently interred at Ardennes American Cemetery and Henri-Chapelle American Cemetery, both in Belgium.
In 2017, DPAA began exhuming unknowns believed to be associated with unaccounted-for airmen from Operation TIDAL WAVE losses. These remains were sent to the DPAA Laboratory at Offutt Air Force Base, Nebraska, for examination and identification.
To identify Reitz’s remains, scientists from DPAA used anthropological analysis, as well as circumstantial evidence. Additionally, scientists from the Armed Forces Medical Examiner System used mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA). Y chromosome DNA (Y-STR) and autosomal DNA (auSTR) analysis.
Reitz’s name is recorded on the Tablets of the Missing at the Florence American Cemetery, an American Battle Monuments Commission site in Impruneta, Italy, along with others still missing from WWII. A rosette will be placed next to his name to indicate he has been accounted for.
Reitz will be buried in Williamsport, Indiana, on a date to be determined.
For family and funeral information, contact the Army Casualty Office at (800) 892-2490.
DPAA is grateful to the American Battle Monuments Commission and to the U.S. Army Regional Mortuary-Europe/Africa for their partnership in this mission.
For additional information on the Defense Department’s mission to account for Americans who went missing while serving our country, visit the DPAA website at www.dpaa.mil or find us on social media at www.facebook.com/dodpaa or https://www.linkedin.com/company/defense-pow-mia-accounting-agency.
From: DPAA NCR OC
Mailbox Public Affairs <dpaa.ncr.oc.mbx.public-affairs@mail.mil>
Sent: 6 June, 2023 10:58
Subject: DPAA News Release - USS Oklahoma Sailor Accounted For
From Kentucky
Greetings,
SEA1 Lawrence was accounted for in April 2021, but his family only recently received their full briefing on his identification, which is why this release is going out now.
June 6, 2023
WASHINGTON—The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that Navy Seaman 1st Class Elmer P. Lawrence, 25, of Park City, Kentucky, killed during World War II, was accounted for on Feb. 1, 2021.
On Dec. 7, 1941, Lawrence was assigned to the battleship USS Oklahoma, which was moored at Ford Island, Pearl Harbor, when the ship was attacked by Japanese aircraft. The USS Oklahoma sustained multiple torpedo hits, which caused it to quickly capsize. The attack on the ship resulted in the deaths of 429 crewmen, including Lawrence.
From December 1941 to June 1944, Navy personnel recovered the remains of the deceased crew, which were subsequently interred in the Halawa and Nu’uanu Cemeteries.
In September 1947, tasked with recovering and identifying fallen U.S. personnel in the Pacific Theater, members of the American Graves Registration Service (AGRS) disinterred the remains of U.S. casualties from the two cemeteries and transferred them to the Central Identification Laboratory at Schofield Barracks. The laboratory staff was only able to confirm the identifications of 35 men from the USS Oklahoma at that time. The AGRS subsequently buried the unidentified remains in 46 plots at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific (NMCP), known as the Punchbowl, in Honolulu. In October 1949, a military board classified those who could not be identified as non-recoverable, including Lawrence.
Between June and November 2015, DPAA personnel exhumed the USS Oklahoma Unknowns from the Punchbowl for analysis.
To identify Lawrence’s remains, scientists from DPAA used dental and anthropological analysis. Additionally, scientists from the Armed Forces Medical Examiner System used mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) analysis.
Lawrence’s name is recorded on the Walls of the Missing at the Punchbowl, along with the others who are missing from WWII. A rosette will be placed next to his name to indicate he has been accounted for.
Lawrence will be buried on July 22, 2023, in Smiths Grove, Kentucky.
For family and funeral information, contact the Navy Personnel Command Public Affairs Office at (901) 874-2438.
DPAA is grateful to the Department of Veterans Affairs and the Department of the Navy for their partnership in this mission.
For additional information on the Defense Department’s mission to account for Americans who went missing while serving our country, visit the DPAA website at www.dpaa.mil, find us on social media at www.facebook.com/dodpaa or https://www.linkedin.com/company/defense-pow-mia-accounting-agency.
Lawrence’s personnel profile can be viewed at https://dpaa-mil.sites.crmforce.mil/dpaaProfile?id=a0Jt0000000XdzwEAC.
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Solider killed in Korean War
finally identified as Miamisburg man after 69 years - WHIO TV
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced that United States
Army Private First Class Billy A. DeBord, 18, of
Miamisburg, ...
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Portales native who died of
malaria during World War II accounted for - KVII
He was accounted for by the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency on March 22. Comment bubble. JOIN THE
CONVERSATION (. 0. ) Wheeler Funeral Home, ...
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Congressman calls for
removal of rainbow flag from entrance at Mississippi VA Medical
Center
... such as POW/MIA
flag and flags of the U.S. Armed Forces, should be
flown or displayed alongside the American flag on VA
property.
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Fallen WWII IN soldier's
remains returned after decades | MyWabashValley.com
According to the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA), Leonard E. Adams from Dana,
Indiana was 25 when he lost his life in the war.
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SSG Holeman Obituary (2023)
- Shawnee, OK - Legacy.com
SSG DAVID EMERY HOLEMAN SSG David
Emery Holeman, 39, of La Harpe, Kansas, passed away
on July 19, 1942, in the Philippines. The Defense
POW/MIA ...
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Remains of a Medal of
Honor recipient return to Georgia for a burial after 73
years
Chase Elliott denied wrecking Denny
Hamlin on purpose, but video seemed to show
otherwise. So, should he be suspended like Bubba
Wallace was? Vote!
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Medal of Honor
recipient laid to rest – after 73 years - Morning Sentinel
Medal of Honor
recipient laid to rest – after 73 years. Luther
Story picked up a machine gun from a wounded comrade
and killed or wounded about 100 ...
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Remains of 18-year-old
Miamisburg soldier killed in Korea accounted for after 73 years
The remains were sent to Hawaii where they
were buried at the National Memorial Cemetery of the
Pacific. In October 2019, the Defense POW/MIA ...
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DPAA begins multi-year
“Hellship” Accounting Project
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA) began the multi-year
project ... Japanese Navy in World War II to
transport prisoners of war (POWs).
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Sanford Miller Obituary (1948 -
2023) - Legacy Remembers
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting
Agency contacted the family about DNA samples to help
identify Sanford's remains should they be found.
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Magic Valley Pow/Mia Awareness
Association hosts 'loud and proud' Memorial Day event.
Updated: 10 hours ago. Magic Valley Pow/Mia
Awareness ...
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Navy Aviation Radioman
First Class Mitts accounted for from WWII - Audacy
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced recently that
U.S. Navy Aviation Radioman First Class Wilbur A.
Mitts, 24, of Seaside, ...
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... Uhrin's remains were not identified until
May 12, 2022, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting
Agency (DPAA) announced in December.
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Remains of a World War II
airman identified nearly 80 years after his death - KAKE
... Romania, during Operation Tidal
Wave, the US Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency said. After the war, Howie's
remains were never identified, ...
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Mount Dora minister assists
in funeral held 80 years after soldier's death
According to the Defense POW/
MIA Account Agency, it took years to identify
remains buried in the Hero Section of Bolovan
Cemetery, Romania, ...
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Missing World War II
veteran from Elizabethton accounted for - SuperTalk 92.9
... action World War II soldier from
Elizabethton, Tennessee has recently been accounted
for according to the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency.
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Remains of California
soldier killed in WWII finally home - KMPH
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced that U.S. Army
Pvt. Robert R. Gruwell, 20, of Los Angeles, killed
during World War II, ...
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Soldier Accounted For From
Korean War (DeBord, B.)
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Army
Pfc. Billy A. DeBord, 18, of Miamisburg, Ohio, who was
killed during ...
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From: DPAA NCR OC
Mailbox Public Affairs <dpaa.ncr.oc.mbx.public-affairs@mail.mil>
Sent: 31 May, 2023 09:49
Subject: DPAA News Release - Ohio Solider Accounted For From
Korea
Greetings,
Pfc. DeBord was accounted for in April, but his family only recently received their full briefing on his identification, which is why this release is going out now.
May 31, 2023
WASHINGTON—The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Army Pfc. Billy A. DeBord, 18, of Miamisburg, Ohio, who was killed during the Korean War, was accounted for April 28, 2023.
In July 1950, DeBord was a member of F Company, 2nd Battalion, 5th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Cavalry Division, Eighth U.S. Army. He was reported missing in action on July 25 while his unit was engaged by the North Korean People’s Army near Yongdong, South Korea. Due to the fighting, his body could not be recovered at that time, and there was never any evidence that he was a prisoner of war. The Army issued a presumptive finding of death on Dec. 31, 1953.
On April 17, 1951, the 565th Quartermaster Graves Registration Company recovered a set of remains designated Unknown X-945 near Yongdong. There was not enough identifying evidence to associate the remains with DeBord and were declared unidentifiable on April 15, 1955. The remains were sent to Hawaii where they were buried at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, known as the Punchbowl, in Honolulu.
In July 2018, the DPAA proposed a plan to disinter 652 Korean War Unknowns from the Punchbowl. On Oct. 21, 2019, DPAA disinterred Unknown X-945 as part of Phase Two of the Korean War Disinterment Project and sent the remains to the DPAA laboratory for analysis.
To identify DeBord’s remains, scientists from DPAA used dental and anthropological analysis, as well as chest radiograph comparison. Additionally, scientists from the Armed Forces Medical Examiner System used mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) analysis.
DeBord’s name is recorded on the Courts of the Missing at the Punchbowl, along with the others who are still missing from the Korean War. A rosette will be placed next to his name to indicate he has been accounted for.
DeBord will be buried in Miamisburg, Ohio on Nov. 11, 2023.
For family and funeral information, contact the Army Casualty Office at (800) 892-2490.
To see the most up-to-date statistics on DPAA recovery efforts for those unaccounted for from the Korean War, go to the Korean War fact sheet on the DPAA website at: https://www.dpaa.mil/Resources/Fact-Sheets/Article-View/Article/569610/progress-on-korean-war-personnel-accounting/.
For additional information on the Defense Department’s mission to account for Americans who went missing while serving our country, visit the DPAA website at www.dpaa.mil, find us on social media at www.facebook.com/dodpaa or https://www.linkedin.com/company/defense-pow-mia-accounting-agency.
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From:
Lewis <quohog3@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, May 31, 2023 at 4:00 PM
Subject: POWS sent to Russia
American POWs were sent to Russian gulags
After the Korean war, hundreds of American Pows were never
seen again. For all intents and purposes, our government had
abandoned
them in the hands of the enemy.
During the Vietnam war, many Americans who were seen being
captured in North Vietnam simply disappeared never to be seen
again.
This has been the case throughout the cold war. After the fall
of the Soviet Union, Russia opened its files to some extent.
However if any
central record had ever been filed on these people, very little
was found. Except for a very lucky few, most westerners sent to
the gulags
ever made it back home. In the early 90s I saw an interview with
a former Russian intelligence officer. He had been stationed at
an
interrogation center for Americans captured in Vietnam and sent
to Russia. He said that there were always several Americans
being
interrogated there. After a while they were always sent to the
gulags. As far as we know, none of them ever made it back home
again. In his
two years at that center at least 200 American POWs came through
that place. The KGB always had agents imbedded in North
Vietnamese field
army units to select POWs to be sent directly to Russia
bypassing the Hanoi prison camps. To this day, literally
thousands of our people
have disappeared into the Russian gulags never to be seen again.
Every year I make calls send letters about them. Every year
all I get back is… silence.
I ask that everyone reading this pray for the families of our
lost heros, for them to be comforted, reassured that we honor
their
sacrifice. I also hope that some day our government will take
responsibility for their abandonment of our people to a
lingering
death.
Lewis Brackett, USCG veretan, 1966-70
https://www.deseret.com/2001/2/4/19567567/were-u-s-pows-held-in-rus
https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xpm-1992-11-12-1992317164-stor
https://communistcrimes.org/en/americans-soviet-prison-camps-narratives
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-07-29-mn-115-story.html
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'He's Home': Missing 73 Years,
Medal of Honor Recipient's Remains Return to Georgia
A soldier awarded the Medal of Honor
after he went missing in battle during the Korean War is
being buried on Memorial Day near his hometown in ...
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'He's home': Missing 73 years,
Medal of Honor recipient's remains return to Georgia
An American soldier awarded the Medal
of Honor after he went missing in battle during the
Korean War was buried on Memorial Day near his
Georgia ...
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Missing 73 Years, Medal of
Honor Recipient's Remains Return Home - VOA News
Story's actions in the Korean War on
September 1, 1950, would ensure he was remembered. He
was awarded the Medal of Honor, the nation's
highest ...
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Medal of Honor
recipient Cpl. Luther Story laid to final rest more than 70 years
after death in ...
The Medal of Honor was
posthumously awarded to Story by Gen. Omar Bradley on
June 21, 1951. His citation notes that while serving as
a weapons squad ...
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'He's home': Missing 73 years,
Medal of Honor recipient's remains return to Georgia | WWTI
He was awarded the Medal of Honor,
the nation's highest military honor, ... A Memorial Day
burial with military honors took place Monday at the ...
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Korean War Medal of Honor
recipient to be buried at Andersonville National Cemetery
But his remains couldn't be identified at
the time. He was posthumously awarded the Medal of
Honor for bravery in combat. Andersonville
National ...
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Memorial Day 2023: Missing 73
years, Medal of Honor recipient's remains return to Georgia
Soldiers of the 9th Infantry Regiment
made a desperate retreat as North Korean troops closed
in around them. A wounded, 18-year-old Army Pfc.
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| From: | John Pagel <tfosoca@msn.com> |
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Agency identifies remains
of Indiana soldier killed in WWII - Spectrum News
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency announced Tuesday that U.S. Army
Pfc. Leonard E. Adams' remains had been identified;
The 25-year-old Adams ...
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Flag Display: Requirements,
Protocols, and More - MRSC
Third Friday in September: POW/MIA
Recognition Day; November 11: Veterans' Day;
December 7: Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day. Note: If
the designated day ...
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How crosses and mementos
help some Marines remember fallen comrades
Crosses
in honor of fallen Marines stand atop a hill near Camp ...
two Navy corpsmen and one Navy chaplain –
carried a cross made of an old ...
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Remains of soldier from
Elizabethton killed during World War II to be buried in Arlington
U.S. Army Pfc. Mark P. Wilson
was accounted for on September 12, 2022, according to the
Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA).
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Remains of Indiana soldier
killed in France during WWII identified - Stars and Stripes
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency announced Tuesday that the remains
of U.S. Army Pfc. Leonard E. Adams, 25, of Dana,
Ind., were identified in ...
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| Date: | Tue, 30 May 2023 14:58:39 +0000 |
| From: | John Pagel <tfosoca@msn.com> |
https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/29/asia/vietnam-cambodia-pow-50-years-reunion-intl-hnk-ml/index.html
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Remains of U.S. soldier killed
in Korean War laid to rest | Yonhap News Agency
Fern Sumpter Winbush (C),
principal deputy director for the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Age...
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Remains of a World War II
airman from southern Illinois identified nearly 80 years after his
death
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency included this photo in a May 25 news
release announcing that U.S. Army Air Forces Tech. Sgt.
James M. Howie, 24, ...
Coming home: Remains of
World War II airman will be buried in Illinois hometown -
WSB-TV
Howie, 24, was killed on
Aug. 1, 1943, in Romania, according to a Thursday
news release from the U.S. Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency. Remains of ...
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Remembering POW/MIA
veterans - Daily Telegraph
Remembering POW/MIA
veterans. 52 minutes ago. Oovvuu. On Memorial Day,
we want to remember the veterans who gave everything
for their country and ...
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Remains of U.S. soldier
killed in Korean War laid to rest | Yonhap News Agency
... in Changnyeong, 264 kilometers
southeast of Seoul, in 2018, have been identified as
his by the Pentagon's Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency.
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Missing 73 years, Medal
of Honor recipient's remains returned to Georgia: "He's
home"
Late Army Cpl. Luther H. Story's
bravery during the Korean War earned him the
Medal of Honor -- and cost him his life.
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The remains of a Medal
of Honor recipient killed in the Korean War will be buried
in Georgia today
The remains of a soldier killed in
the Korean War and posthumously awarded a Medal
of Honor will be laid to rest in Georgia, 73
years after his ...
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Medal of Honor
recipient's remains to be buried in Georgia after being
identified 73 years later
Luther Herschel Story had been found.
A Memorial Day burial with military honors
was scheduled for Monday at the Andersonville
National Cemetery.
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Medal of Honor
Monday: Army 1st Lt. Rudolph B. Davila - Department of Defense
Medal of Honor
Monday graphic. As the leader of a machine gun
platoon during World War II, Army 1st Lt. Rudolph
Bianco Davila's job was to cover ...
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Georgia Medal of Honor
recipient's family believed he would never be found - Fox News
The remains of Army Pfc. Luther
Herschel Story, 18, have returned home to Georgia. A
burial for the soldier, who is a Medal of Honor
recipient, ...
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'He's home': Missing 73
years, Medal of Honor recipient's remains return to
Georgia
SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — Soldiers of the
9th Infantry Regiment made a desperate retreat as
North Korean troops closed in around them.
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'He's home': Missing 73
years, Medal of Honor recipient's remains return to
Georgia
Story's actions in the Korean War on
Sept. 1, 1950, would ensure he was remembered. He
was awarded the Medal of Honor, the nation's
highest military ...
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'He's home': Missing 73
years, Medal of Honor recipient's remains return to
Georgia
Army Pfc. Luther Herschel Story, who
was awarded the Medal of Honor after he went
missing in battle during the Korean War, was buried
on Memorial ...
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'He's home': Missing 73
years, Medal of Honor recipient's remains return to
Georgia
An American soldier awarded the
Medal of Honor after he went missing in battle
during the Korean War is being buried on Memorial
Day near his ...
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Wichitans participate in
challenge honoring Medal of Honor recipient - KWCH
Murphy posthumously received the
Medal of Honor for actions he took on June 28,
2005, exposing himself to enemy fire in the
mountains of Afghanistan, ...
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A final resting place in
Kansas for soldier who died in WWII - Hays Post
WASHINGTON – The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced that U.S. Army
Sgt. Gregory V. Knoll 22, of Garden City, Kansas,
killed during ...
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White Table Explained
During Trigg Memorial Day Service | WKDZ Radio
VFW Post 7890's Karle Johnson relayed
the signifance of Memorial Day and the meaning of
the POW/MIA White Table during the
Trigg County Memorial ...
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Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency identified the remains of Staff Sergeant
Michael Uhrin on May 12, 2022.
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Best of: Thousands of
Americans went missing in war. These men are bringing them home.
According to the National League of
POW/MIA Families organization, 65
Illinois military members remain missing and
unaccounted for.
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Missing almost 80 years,
remains of Ottawa-born WWII soldier to be laid to rest in Texas
(Photo provided by Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency). May 29, 2023 at 11:00 am CDT.
The remains of Word War II Army Private Myron E.
Williams, ...
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Army Air Force Pilot From
Pennsylvania Killed During WWII Accounted For, Authorities Say
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency said on May 22 that 2nd Lt. James
Litherland, 25, of South Williamsport was accounted
for in March.
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A memorial being planned to honor military
spouses features those roses as a tribute to Sybil Stockdale
and her sisterhood of Vietnam era POW/MIA ...
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Army Air Force pilot from
Pennsylvania killed during WWII accounted for, authorities say
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting
Agency said last week that 2nd Lt. James Litherland, 25,
of South Williamsport was accounted for in March.
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Long-lost WWII airman to get
hero's burial in N.J. hometown this Memorial Day - nj.com
“I'm overwhelmed with joy.”
Long-thought unrecoverable, Uhrin's remains were
successfully identified by researchers with the Defense
POW/MIA ...
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'Rolling to Remember' Riders
Bring Attention to PTSD, POW-MIA - NBC4 Washington
'Rolling to Remember' Riders
Bring Attention to PTSD, POW-MIA. Riders are
seeking to bring attention to the effect of PTSD on those
who have ...
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Navy aviator honored nearly
80 years after his death at Mt. Soledad Memorial Day - CBS 8
A few years later, divers located the
plane and remained in Palau in 2016. Those remains
were sent to the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency labs for ...
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Army Air Force pilot from
Pennsylvania killed during WWII accounted for, authorities say
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency said that 2nd Lt. James Litherland,
25, of South Williamsport, Pa., was accounted for in
March.
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Gov. Youngkin orders flags
to be flown at half-staff for Memorial Day - WDBJ
Youngkin also encouraged that the
POW/MIA flag to be flown, “in memory and
honor of the service and sacrifice of members of the
armed forces of ...
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World War II veterans
remains returned home after over 80 years - Spectrum News
In 2015, The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA) began using this technology
to identify fallen soldiers from the attacks on
Pearl Harbor.
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Inside the government agency
working to identify fallen service members - Yahoo News
At the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency, experts like forensic anthropologist
Carrie Brown spend years using DNA, dental records, sinus
records and ...
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Missing Vet Finally Returns
Home After Decades-Long Disappearance - NNN
... returned home to be laid to
rest with May 28, 2023 Iowa State Daily, Laos, MIA
Families, National League of POW, US Army, Vietnam,
Vietnam War.
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'Finally getting closure':
Maryland troops identified decades after their deaths will be
...
After its inception in 2015, the
Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency
began analyzing unidentified bodies from the mass
grave.
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A Department of Defense division
known as the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency
works to find and identify the unaccounted and bring closure
to ...
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BPL program shares stories
of Iowa war veterans | The Hawk Eye
She spotted a man selling Vietnam
POW bracelets from the back of a VW van. She
bought the metal bracelet she wears always — as an
Iowan, ...
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Department of Defense
division works to find missing American service members
A Department of Defense division
known as the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency works to find and identify the
unaacounted and bring closure to ...
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Inside the government
agency working to identify fallen service members - CBS News
At the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency, experts like forensic
anthropologist Carrie Brown spend years using DNA,
dental records, sinus records ...
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CalVet On Memorial Day 2023
- Missing In Action But Always In Our Hearts: The Search
Continues
According to the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency, more than 41,000 missing are
presumed lost at sea via sunken ships, submarines,
and downed ...
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Just Sayin': This year, it's a
special Memorial Day - Newsday
POW bracelet
of Jonathan Bednarek, who was declared MIA during the ... of
Tours School in Amityville, I purchased a prisoner of war
bracelet.
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Cpl. Luther Herschel Story
earned the Medal of Honor in the Korean War in 1950
but had been missing in action for 73 years. He returns to a
hero's ...
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Vietnam War: Rethinking the
sacrifices of many - The Tennessean
There are 1,582 Americans still
unaccounted for, according to the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency. Veterans, family members and
others disagree.
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What is this black and
white flag flying outside the post office? |
YourCentralValley.com
The POW/MIA flag is
usually flown immediately below or next to the
United States flag as second in order of precedence.
Copyright 2023 Nexstar Media ...
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American Legion Flies
Largest POW Flag - YouTube
The American Legion on Bull Street is
flying the largest POW/MIA flag just a
few days ahead of Memorial Day. It's meant to honor
prisoners of war ...
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420,000 Killed In WWII:
Significance Of Memorial Day To Americans | FedSmith.com
I was advised by the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency that urns had been located in a
cave in the area that may be filled with ashes of
American ...
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Army Air Force pilot from
Pennsylvania killed during WWII accounted for, authorities say
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting
Agency said last week that 2nd Lt. James Litherland, 25,
of South Williamsport was accounted for in March.
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Long-lost WWII airman to get
hero's burial in N.J. hometown this Memorial Day - nj.com
“I'm overwhelmed with joy.”
Long-thought unrecoverable, Uhrin's remains were
successfully identified by researchers with the Defense
POW/MIA ...
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'Rolling to Remember' Riders
Bring Attention to PTSD, POW-MIA - NBC4 Washington
'Rolling to Remember' Riders
Bring Attention to PTSD, POW-MIA. Riders are
seeking to bring attention to the effect of PTSD on those
who have ...
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Navy aviator honored nearly
80 years after his death at Mt. Soledad Memorial Day - CBS 8
A few years later, divers located the
plane and remained in Palau in 2016. Those remains
were sent to the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency labs for ...
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Army Air Force pilot from
Pennsylvania killed during WWII accounted for, authorities say
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency said that 2nd Lt. James Litherland,
25, of South Williamsport, Pa., was accounted for in
March.
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Gov. Youngkin orders flags
to be flown at half-staff for Memorial Day - WDBJ
Youngkin also encouraged that the
POW/MIA flag to be flown, “in memory and
honor of the service and sacrifice of members of the
armed forces of ...
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World War II veterans
remains returned home after over 80 years - Spectrum News
In 2015, The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA) began using this technology
to identify fallen soldiers from the attacks on
Pearl Harbor.
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Inside the government agency
working to identify fallen service members - Yahoo News
At the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency, experts like forensic anthropologist
Carrie Brown spend years using DNA, dental records, sinus
records and ...
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Missing Vet Finally Returns
Home After Decades-Long Disappearance - NNN
... returned home to be laid to
rest with May 28, 2023 Iowa State Daily, Laos, MIA
Families, National League of POW, US Army, Vietnam,
Vietnam War.
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'Finally getting closure':
Maryland troops identified decades after their deaths will be
...
After its inception in 2015, the
Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency
began analyzing unidentified bodies from the mass
grave.
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A Department of Defense division
known as the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency
works to find and identify the unaccounted and bring closure
to ...
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BPL program shares stories
of Iowa war veterans | The Hawk Eye
She spotted a man selling Vietnam
POW bracelets from the back of a VW van. She
bought the metal bracelet she wears always — as an
Iowan, ...
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Department of Defense
division works to find missing American service members
A Department of Defense division
known as the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency works to find and identify the
unaacounted and bring closure to ...
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Inside the government
agency working to identify fallen service members - CBS News
At the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency, experts like forensic
anthropologist Carrie Brown spend years using DNA,
dental records, sinus records ...
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CalVet On Memorial Day 2023
- Missing In Action But Always In Our Hearts: The Search
Continues
According to the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency, more than 41,000 missing are
presumed lost at sea via sunken ships, submarines,
and downed ...
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Just Sayin': This year, it's a
special Memorial Day - Newsday
POW bracelet
of Jonathan Bednarek, who was declared MIA during the ... of
Tours School in Amityville, I purchased a prisoner of war
bracelet.
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Cpl. Luther Herschel Story
earned the Medal of Honor in the Korean War in 1950
but had been missing in action for 73 years. He returns to a
hero's ...
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Vietnam War: Rethinking the
sacrifices of many - The Tennessean
There are 1,582 Americans still
unaccounted for, according to the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency. Veterans, family members and
others disagree.
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What is this black and
white flag flying outside the post office? |
YourCentralValley.com
The POW/MIA flag is
usually flown immediately below or next to the
United States flag as second in order of precedence.
Copyright 2023 Nexstar Media ...
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American Legion Flies
Largest POW Flag - YouTube
The American Legion on Bull Street is
flying the largest POW/MIA flag just a
few days ahead of Memorial Day. It's meant to honor
prisoners of war ...
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420,000 Killed In WWII:
Significance Of Memorial Day To Americans | FedSmith.com
I was advised by the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency that urns had been located in a
cave in the area that may be filled with ashes of
American ...
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Missing POW remains return
to Ottumwa | Local News | ottumwacourier.com
According to list of Korean War
MIA's published in the Des Moines Register in 1953, White's
was listed as "the son of Mrs. Darlene Edith White, ...
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Restored aircraft on display to
honor Jacksonville pilot and first American casualty of Gulf War
The National POW/MIA
Memorial & Museum at the former Naval Air Station Cecil
Field now has the restored F/A-18 model on display.
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Remains of Korean War Medal of Honor recipient arrives in Americus ahead of his burial - WALB
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1,400 Tennessee service
members are still MIA. “With a final hug and kiss, he
put me down, ... UT honors soldiers with POW/MIA
chair at Neyland ...
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Pearl Harbor Victim and
Bowdoin Alum to Be Laid to Rest in Maine
In June 2021, thanks to advances
in forensic technology, the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA) identified the remains
of Ensign Allen, ...
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Governor to honor WWII
Marine from Nashville during Memorial Day service
But years later, historians with
Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency
linked one of the remains with Corporal
Ragsdale.
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From:
DPAA NCR OC Mailbox Public Affairs <dpaa.ncr.oc.mbx.public-affairs@mail.mil>
Sent: 25 May, 2023 08:22
Subject: DPAA News Release - Illinois Airman Accounted
For From WWII
Greetings,
Tech. Sgt. Howie was accounted for in August 2022, but his family only recently received their full briefing on his identification, which is why this release is going out now.
May 25, 2023
WASHINGTON—The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Army Air Forces Tech. Sgt. James M. Howie, 24, of Chester, Illinois, killed during World War II, was accounted for Aug. 23, 2022.
In the summer of 1943, Howie was assigned to the 345th Bombardment Squadron (Heavy), 98th Bombardment Group (Heavy), 9th Air Force. On Aug. 1, 1943, the B-24 Liberator bomber on which Howie was a radio operator was hit by enemy anti-aircraft fire and crashed during Operation TIDAL WAVE, the largest bombing mission against the oil fields and refineries at Ploiesti, north of Bucharest, Romania. His remains were not identified following the war. The remains that could not be identified were buried as Unknowns in the Hero Section of the Civilian and Military Cemetery of Bolovan, Ploiesti, Prahova, Romania.
Following the war, the American Graves Registration Command (AGRC), the organization that searched for and recovered fallen American personnel, disinterred all American remains from the Bolovan Cemetery for identification. The AGRC was unable to identify more than 80 unknowns from Bolovan Cemetery, and those remains were permanently interred at Ardennes American Cemetery and Henri-Chapelle American Cemetery, both in Belgium.
In 2017, DPAA began exhuming unknowns believed to be associated with unaccounted-for airmen from Operation TIDAL WAVE losses. These remains were sent to the DPAA Laboratory at Offutt Air Force Base, Nebraska, for examination and identification.
To identify Howie’s remains, scientists from DPAA used dental and anthropological analysis, as well as circumstantial evidence. Additionally, scientists from the Armed Forces Medical Examiner System used mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) and Y chromosome DNA (Y-STR) analysis.
Howie’s name is recorded on the Tablets of the Missing at the Florence American Cemetery, an American Battle Monuments Commission site in Impruneta, Italy, along with others still missing from WWII. A rosette will be placed next to his name to indicate he has been accounted for.
Howie will be buried in Chester Illinois, on June 3, 2023.
For family and funeral information, contact the Army Casualty Office at (800) 892-2490.
DPAA is grateful to the American Battle Monuments Commission and to the U.S. Army Regional Mortuary-Europe/Africa for their partnership in this mission.
For additional information on the Defense Department’s mission to account for Americans who went missing while serving our country, visit the DPAA website at www.dpaa.mil or find us on social media at www.facebook.com/dodpaa or https://www.linkedin.com/company/defense-pow-mia-accounting-agency.
Howie’s personnel profile can be viewed at https://dpaa-mil.sites.crmforce.mil/dpaaProfile?id=a0Jt000000cLlnUEAS.
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New Book "Captured by Love"
Reveals Inspiring Romance and Love Stories of Vietnam War
POWs
For example, Carole, the
wife of a missing-in-action soldier, fearlessly
presented her husband's POW-MIA bracelet
to John Wayne, who wore it for ...
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East Tennessee veteran
to be buried after being unidentified for more than 75 years
- WVLT
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency was able to use DNA samples to
determine that Vinyard's remains were in an
unmarked grave in Belgium.
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Remains of WWII soldier,
Dixon native to be buried in Texas - WIFR
Years of data collection and
research led to his identification on July 13, 2022 by
the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA).
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Those men and women inspired
the Prisoner of War/Missing in Action (POW/MIA)
symbol. News 2's Chris O'Brien explores the history of
the symbol and ...
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Navy
Destroyer Sunk in World War II Is Discovered Off Okinawa -
The New York Times
He received the Navy Cross
posthumously for sinking three Japanese ships in
a single day during the war. The Navy
commissioned a ship in his honor ...
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Final resting place | WORLD
- WNG.org
The work of finding the
remains of missing troops like Green belongs to the
Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency. Its
teams include investigators, ...
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Vietnam and POWs:
How many POWs returned, how many are still missing -
Knoxville News Sentinel
There are 1582 Americans still
unaccounted for, according to the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency. Veterans, family members and
others disagree.
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South Williamsport WWII
casualty identified; to be buried in Lycoming County
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency announced Monday that the remains of
James Litherland, 25, of South Williamsport, who was
killed during ...
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World War II soldier killed
in battle is finally laid to rest - 10News.com
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency's website said since the 1970s, it's
reunited the remains of nearly 1,000 World War II POWs
and MIAs to ...
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South Williamsport WWII
pilot accounted for | Eyewitness News - PAhomepage.com
According to the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency, U.S. Army Air Forces second
Lieutenant James Litherland was 25 years old
when a B-17F flying ...
An Army Air Force pilot
from South Williamsport, killed during
World War II, has been accounted for
according to the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting ...
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Between 2003 and 2018, the
BentProp Project now known as Project Recover, and the
Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA)
conducted six ...
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Bend-based Project
Recover unites another family with WWII MIA
identification - KTVZ
(KTVZ) -- The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency has announced that, in
partnership with Bend-based Project Recover and
other experts in the field, ...
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From:
DPAA NCR OC Mailbox Public Affairs <dpaa.ncr.oc.mbx.public-affairs@mail.mil>
Greetings, 2LT Litherland was accounted for in March, but his family only recently received their full briefing on his identification, which is why this release is going out now.
May 22, 2023
WASHINGTON—The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Army Air Forces 2nd Lt. James Litherland, 25, of South Williamsport, Pennsylvania, killed during World War II, was accounted for March 16, 2023.
In February of 1944, Litherland was assigned to the 359th Squadron, 303rd Bombardment Group (Heavy). On February 28, Litherland was co-piloting a B-17F Flying Fortress that was struck by anti-aircraft fire after a bombing raid on a German V-2 rocket site in Bois-Coquerel, France.
Before the plane crashed near the city of Le Translay, France three of the airmen parachuted successfully while the other seven crew members, including Litherland, were still on board.
In 1945 American investigators reviewed German documents detailing American planes and their crew during the war. Those documents revealed six sets of remains were recovered near the crash site Le Translay and were buried in the English World War I Memorial Cemetery at Abbeville, France on March 2, 1944. In June 1945 American Graves Registration team disinterred the six sets of remains from Abbeville and interred them in the United States Military Cemetery at St. Andre, France. Five of the six sets of remains were identified the one unknown set of remains was designated as X-452 St. Andre.
Beginning in 1946, the American Graves Registration Command (AGRC), Army Quartermaster Corps, was the organization tasked with recovering missing American personnel in the European Theater. In March 1947 AGRC investigators identified X-452 as being associated with Litherland but were unable to identify him and X-452 was transferred to Suresnes American Cemetery, France. Litherland was declared non-recoverable Dec. 26, 1950.
In September 2017, a DPAA Investigation Team traveled to Le Translay to locate Litherland’s crash site; in August 2018, a DPAA Recovery Team recovered material evidence and osseous remains from the site, which the DPAA laboratory accessioned for analysis. In October 2019, the Department of Defense and the American Battle Monuments Commission exhumed the unknown remains designated X-452 St. Andre, believed to be associated with Litherland, from Suresnes American Cemetery.
To identify Litherland’s remains, scientists from DPAA used dental and anthropological analysis. Additionally, scientists from the Armed Forces Medical Examiner System used mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA), and autosomal DNA (auSTR), analysis.
Litherland’s name is recorded on the Tablets of the Missing at Ardennes American Cemetery, an American Battle Monuments Commission site in Neupré, Belgium, along with others still missing from WWII. A rosette will be placed next to his name to indicate he has been accounted for.
Litherland will be buried at Williamsport, Pennsylvania, on a date yet to be determined.
For family and funeral information, contact the Army Casualty Office at (800) 892-2490.
For additional information on the Defense Department’s mission to account for Americans who went missing while serving our country, visit the DPAA website at www.dpaa.mil or find us on social media at www.facebook.com/dodpaa or https://www.linkedin.com/company/defense-pow-mia-accounting-agency.
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From:
DPAA NCR OC Mailbox Public Affairs <dpaa.ncr.oc.mbx.public-affairs@mail.mil>
Greetings, ARM1c Mitts was accounted for in February, but his family only recently received their full briefing on his identification, which is why this release is going out now.
May 22, 2023
WASHINGTON—The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Navy Aviation Radioman First Class Wilbur A. Mitts, 24, of Seaside, California, killed during World War II, was accounted for Feb. 23, 2023.
In the fall of 1944, Mitts was the Aviation Radioman assigned to the Navy Torpedo Squadron 20, USS Enterprise. On Sept. 10, Mitts and two other crew members abroad the TBM-1C Avenger Bureau Number, 17018 took off from the USS Enterprise on a mission to conduct air strikes against enemy targets in Malakal Naval District, Palau Islands. Their aircraft was struck by enemy anti-aircraft fire and crashed into water near Malakal. Efforts to recover Mitts’ remains were unsuccessful.
Following the war, the American Graves Registration Service, the organization that searched for and recovered fallen American personnel, conducted exhaustive searches of battle areas and crash sites in Palau, concluding their search in the summer of 1947. Investigators could not find any evidence of Mitts or his aircraft. He was declared non recoverable July 16, 1949.
From 2003 – 2018, the BentProp Project now known as Project Recover, and the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) conducted six investigations resulted in the location of a site associated with the incident.
In May 2019, Ships of Exploration and Discovery Research, a DPAA partner organization excavated the site and recovered remains and material evidence.
In Sept. 2021, a subsequent excavation was completed by Project Recover, a nonprofit organization that works to search and recover missing Americans, where additional remains and material evidence were recovered.
Remains and material evidence were sent to the DPAA laboratory at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii, for analysis.
To identify Mitts’ remains, scientists from DPAA used dental analysis. Additionally, scientists from the Armed Forces Medical Examiner System used mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) analysis.
Mitts’ name is recorded on the Walls of the Missing at the Manila American Cemetery and Memorial, an American Battle Monuments Commission site in the Philippines, along with others still missing from WWII. A rosette will be placed next to his name to indicate he has been accounted for.
Mitts will be buried in Seaside, California on Sept. 11, 2023.
For family and funeral information, contact the Navy Service Casualty office at (800) 443-9298.
DPAA is grateful to Project Recover, Ships of Exploration and Discovery Research and to the government of Palau for their assistance in this recovery.
For additional information on the Defense Department’s mission to account for Americans who went missing while serving our country, visit the DPAA website at www.dpaa.mil, find us on social media at www.facebook.com/dodpaa or https://www.linkedin.com/company/defense-pow-mia-accounting-agency. |
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Sailor Accounted For From
World War II (Mitts, W.)
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Navy
Aviation Radioman First Class Wilbur A. Mitts, 24, of
Seaside, ...
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Pilot Accounted For
From World War II (Litherland, J.)
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that
U.S. Army Air Forces 2nd Lt. James Litherland,
25, of South Williamsport, ...
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Oklahoma at Pearl Harbor
perished in the attack on December 7, 1941. According to
his obituary, the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency began a project ...
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History Center honors
"Kenosha's Missing, Not Forgotten"
At the 2015 Wisconsin American
Legion First District POW/MIA
Silent March, Bob VanBendegom talked about his
brother, James. In their last conversation ...
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Remains of WWII Tank
Crewmember Identified Decades After Battle | MENAFN.COM
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency has announced the
identification of the remains of a World War II
tank crewmember from Tennessee who was ...
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Harry Hartmann Obituary
(1931 - 2022) - Mays Landing, NJ - The Press of Atlantic City
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced that U.S. Army Pfc.
Harry J. Hartmann, Jr., who died as a prisoner of war
during the.
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World War II soldier's
remains identified, will be buried in Tennessee hometown
Joe A. Vinyard, 23, was assigned
to Company A, 774th Tank Battalion as a crew
member on a tank in December 1944, the Defense
POW/MIA Accounting ...
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| From:
DPAA NCR OC Mailbox Public Affairs <dpaa.ncr.oc.mbx.public-affairs@mail.mil>
Greetings, Cpl. Vinyard was accounted for in September 2022, but his family only recently received their full briefing on his identification, which is why this release is going out now.
May 18, 2023
WASHINGTON—The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Army Cpl. Joe A. Vinyard, 23, of Loudon County, Tennessee, killed during World War II, was accounted for Sept. 9, 2022.
In December 1944, Vinyard was assigned to Company A, 774th Tank Battalion, as a crewmember on an M4 Sherman tank. His unit was engaged in battle with German forces near Gey, Germany, in the Hürtgen Forest, when his tank was hit by an 88-mm round. The crew bailed out of the tank, but when they regrouped a few minutes later, Vinyard was missing. One of the other crewmen reported seeing Vinyard exit the tank, but, even after several days, no one could find him. Two later inspections of the destroyed tank reported finding no remains inside. The Germans never reported Vinyard as a prisoner of war. The War Department issued a presumptive finding of death in April 1946.
Following the end of the war, the American Graves Registration Command was tasked with investigating and recovering missing American personnel in Europe. They conducted several investigations in the Hürtgen area between 1946 and 1950. In the fall of 1947, remains were found in two destroyed tanks in or near Gey. However, they could not be identified. Vinyard was declared non-recoverable in December 1950.
While studying unresolved American losses in the Hürtgen area, a DPAA historian determined that one set of unidentified remains, designated X-6669 Neuville, recovered from one of the burned-out tanks in Gey possibly belonged to Vinyard. The remains, which had been buried in Ardennes American Cemetery, an American Battle Monuments Commission site in Neuville-en-Condroz, Belgium, were disinterred in July 2021 and sent to the DPAA laboratory at Offutt Air Force Base, Nebraska, for analysis.
To identify Vinyard’s remains, scientists from DPAA used anthropological analysis, as well as circumstantial evidence. Additionally, scientists from the Armed Forces Medical Examiner System used mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA), Y chromosome DNA (Y-STR), and autosomal DNA (auSTR) analysis.
Vinyard’s name is recorded on the Walls of the Missing at Netherlands American Cemetery, an American Battle Monuments Commission site in Margarten, Netherlands, along with the others still missing from World War II. A rosette will be placed next to his name to indicate he has been accounted for.
Vinyard will be buried in Maryville, Tennessee on a date yet to be determined.
For family and funeral information, contact the Army Casualty Office at (800) 892-2490.
DPAA is grateful to the American Battle Monuments Commission and to the U.S. Army Regional Mortuary-Europe/Africa for their partnership in this mission. DPAA would also like to thank Willem Doms for assisting our historians in finding the historical location of Vinyard’s tank.
For additional information on the Defense Department’s mission to account for Americans who went missing while serving our country, visit the DPAA website at www.dpaa.mil, and find us on social media at www.facebook.com/dodpaa or https://www.linkedin.com/company/defense-pow-mia-accounting-agency.
Vinyard’s personnel profile can be viewed at https://dpaa-mil.sites.crmforce.mil/dpaaProfile?id=a0Jt000001ETh4REAT.
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U.S. identifies remains of
WWII soldier who vanished in 1944 - CBS News
Vinyard will be buried in
Maryville, Tennessee, the agency said. Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency works to recover the remains of
missing soldiers.
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The US identifies the
remains of a World War II soldier who disappeared in 1944
Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency is working to recover the
remains of missing soldiers. The service has
recorded 1,474 missing World War II ...
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Loundon County
Soldier's Remains Identified | Obituaries |
citizentribune.com
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency recently announced that U.S.
Army Cpl. Joe A. Vinyard, 23, of Loudon County,
Tennessee, killed during World ...
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U.S. identifies remains
of WWII soldier who vanished in 1944 - MSN
Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency works to recover the remains
of missing soldiers. The agency has accounted
for 1,474 missing WWII soldiers since ...
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Nearly 82 years after
death in Pearl Harbor attack, Logan County sailor returns
home | News
Service members assigned to the
Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency
(DPAA) escort the remains of U.S. Navy Fire
Controlman Second Class Donald ...
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King in the Community: Dale
Pugh, brother of MIA/POW Dennis Pugh - Salina Post
The POW/MIA
recognition project was spearheaded by Jason McIntire,
commander of the Sons of the American Legion Squadron 62
and fellow squadron ...
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Airman Accounted For
From World War II (Elliott, R.)
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that
U.S. Army Air Forces Staff Sgt. Robert C.
Elliott, 24, of Plains, Kansas, ...
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Airman Accounted For
From World War II (Elliott, R.)
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that
U.S. Army Air Forces Staff Sgt. Robert C.
Elliott, 24, of Plains, Kansas, ...
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King in the Community:
Dale Pugh, brother of MIA/POW Dennis Pugh -
Salina Post
The POW/MIA
recognition project was spearheaded by Jason
McIntire, commander of the Sons of the American
Legion Squadron 62 and fellow squadron ...
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The bodies of six
American airmen were recovered at Grado - Hardwood Paroxysm
... 1944 will be recovered with a
project by Dpaa (Defense Pow/Mia
Accounting Agency), the US Department of Defense
agency responsible for ...
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Logan County sailor killed at Pearl Harbor laid to rest after 80 years
lost - WVOW Radio
From: DPAA NCR OC
Mailbox Public Affairs <dpaa.ncr.oc.mbx.public-affairs@mail.mil>
Sent: 18 May, 2023 09:00
Subject: DPAA News Release - Kansas Airman Accounted For From
WWII
Greetings,
Staff Sgt. Elliott was accounted for in February 2023, but his family only recently received their full briefing on his identification, which is why this release is going out now.
May 18, 2023
WASHINGTON—The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Army Air Forces Staff Sgt. Robert C. Elliott, 24, of Plains, Kansas, killed during World War II, was accounted for Feb. 8, 2023.
In the summer of 1943, Elliott was assigned to the 343rd Bombardment Squadron, 98th Bombardment Group, 9th Air Force. On Aug. 1, 1943, the aircraft on which Elliot worked as an assistant engineer, was hit by enemy anti-aircraft fire and crashed during Operation TIDAL WAVE, the largest bombing mission against the oil fields and refineries at Ploiesti, north of Bucharest, Romania. Elliott’s remains were not identified following the war. The remains that could not be identified were buried as Unknowns in the Hero Section of the Civilian and Military Cemetery of Bolovan, Ploiesti, Prahova, Romania.
Following the war, the American Graves Registration Command (AGRC), the organization that searched for and recovered fallen American personnel, disinterred all American remains from the Bolovan Cemetery for identification. The AGRC was unable to identify more than 80 unknowns from Bolovan Cemetery, and those remains were permanently interred at Ardennes American Cemetery and Henri-Chapelle American Cemetery, both in Belgium.
In 2017, DPAA began exhuming unknowns believed to be associated with unaccounted-for airmen from Operation TIDAL WAVE losses. These remains were sent to the DPAA Laboratory at Offutt Air Force Base, Nebraska, for examination and identification.
To identify Elliott’s remains, scientists from DPAA used anthropological analysis. Additionally, scientists from the Armed Forces Medical Examiner System used mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA), Y chromosome DNA (Y-STR) and autosomal DNA (auSTR) analysis.
Elliott’s name is recorded on the Tablets of the Missing at the Florence American Cemetery, an American Battle Monuments Commission site in Impruneta, Italy, along with others still missing from WWII. A rosette will be placed next to his name to indicate he has been accounted for.
Elliott will be buried in Plains, Kansas on Aug. 1, 2023.
For family and funeral information, contact the Army Casualty Office at (800) 892-2490.
DPAA is grateful to the American Battle Monuments Commission and to the U.S. Army Regional Mortuary-Europe/Africa for their partnership in this mission.
For additional information on the Defense Department’s mission to account for Americans who went missing while serving our country, visit the DPAA website at www.dpaa.mil or find us on social media at www.facebook.com/dodpaa or https://www.linkedin.com/company/defense-pow-mia-accounting-agency.
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Philippines MIA Search
and Recovery Project - GiveSendGo
Once his plane is found we will then be
working with the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency for any possible recovery of remains.
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Bringing soldier 'home' after
70 years - Putnam Sentinel
He was reported missing in
action (MIA) on November 26, ... In August 2019 the Defense
POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) disinterred
X-14326 and ...
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David Joseph Riley - Monroe
Times
His remains were deemed
unrecoverable and unaccounted
for until February 24, 2021, when the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA) used forensic ...
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Copper Bracelet Prompts
An Unexpected Epilogue For Vietnam War Veterans | The Newtown Bee
He and his wife Liz are former
longtime residents of Sandy Hook. Paul doesn't remember
exactly when he received his copper POW bracelet,
only that it ...
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Donald Robert McCloud |
Obituaries | loganbanner.com
In May 2021, his remains were
identified through the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency. He was stationed on the USS Oklahoma as a
Fire Controlman ...
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Remains of World War II
soldier from St. Louis area to be buried at Jefferson Barracks
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA) says an investigation team
recovered evidence of a crash site in July 2012.
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LETTER: As 'Uncle Roy' came
home, his village gave a fitting salute | Ozaukee Press
LeRoy's mission was carried on by the
support of the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency. The DPAA is charged with
providing the fullest possible ...
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The remains of a World War II
soldier who died fighting the Japanese have been identified
by the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA).
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Sailor's remains returned
home to W.Va. after 81 years - WYMT
The process that these
identifications are made through is called
“reference sampling,” where the scientists at
Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency ...
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USS Oklahoma (Credit US
Navy) - WVVA
Cedar Bluff POW-MIA
Cross and Flag dedication. Updated: May. 1, 2023 at
12:29 PM PDT. Cedar Bluff POW-MIA
Cross and Flag dedication.
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Korea-U.S. joint remains
identification | Yonhap News Agency
... identification work with
John Byrd (L), lab director at the U.S. Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency, at the center in Seoul on May 15, 2023.
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Remains of soldier from Grand
Rapids killed in World War II identified 80 years later - WXYZ
Photo by: Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency. According to the DPAA, Pfc. Willard H.
Brinks, 24, of Grand Rapids, was accounted for on July
20, ...
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Michigan soldier killed in
WWII accounted for, will be buried in Grand Rapids - WILX
Grand Rapids Soldier accounted for
from WWII(The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency). By Samantha Sayles. Published:
May.
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Remains of Korean War
Soldier to be buried in Dupont, Ohio - DVIDS
During Phase 2 of the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency's Korean War Disinterment Project
in August 2019, X-14326 Operation GLORY, one of the
burials ...
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May 28 Scroll of Honor
stone dedication announced for Harold C. Pearce | Clemson News
In 2018, the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency proposed to disinter 652 Korean
War unknowns for scientific testing and possible
identification.
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At RAF Binbrook in Lincolnshire, U.S. pilot Captain Bill Schaffner (pictured right with his wife) was a popular addition to the ranks of 5 Squadron. He arrived there in 1970 to learn to fly one-man Lightning fighter planes as part of an exchange programme between the U.S. Air Force and the RAF. With him were wife Linda and small children David, Glennon and baby Michael. Life on a Cold War airbase in those days revolved around the ever-present threat from the Soviet Union. All personnel were required to be fully prepared for such an eventuality, and in September that year, a major exercise began to test a squadron's reaction to a Soviet attack on the UK. British aircraft posing as Soviet bombers were out over the North Sea, threatening to stray into territorial waters. 5 Squadron's challenge was to find them, shadow them and warn them off, or, if necessary, practise shooting them down. All day, Lightnings roared airborne to challenge 'the invaders', then headed back into Binbrook, tyres squealing as they landed, to refuel and then take off again, straight back into the fray.
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From: DPAA NCR OC
Mailbox Public Affairs <dpaa.ncr.oc.mbx.public-affairs@mail.mil>
Sent: 15 May, 2023 07:46
Subject: DPAA News Release - Michigan Soldier Accounted For From
WWII
Greetings,
Pfc. Brinks was accounted for in July 2022, but his family only recently received their full briefing on his identification, which is why this release is going out now.
May 15, 2023
WASHINGTON—The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Army Pfc. Willard H. Brinks, 24, of Grand Rapids, Michigan, killed during World War II, was accounted for July 20, 2022.
In November 1942, Brinks was assigned to the Company K, 3rd Battalion, 126th Infantry Regiment, 32nd Infantry Division, deployed in present day Papua New Guinea. As part of an attempt to neutralize the Japanese threat to Port Moresby, the Allied center of communications in the area, Brinks’ unit attempted to flank the enemy defensive lines stretched across the Sanananda Track in northern Papua. Brinks was reported as killed in action on Nov. 22, the first day of the Allied attack.
Following the war, the American Graves Registration Service (AGRS), the military unit responsible for investigating and recovering missing American personnel in the Pacific Theater, conducted exhaustive searches of battle areas and crash sites in New Guinea, concluding their search in late 1948. A number of remains were found in the area where Brinks was killed, but none could be positively identified as him. He was declared non-recoverable Sept. 7, 1949.
The unidentified remains from Papua New Guinea were eventually interred as Unknowns at Fort McKinley Cemetery, now Manila American Cemetery and Memorial, an American Battle Monuments Commission site in the Philippines.
DPAA predecessor organizations began researching and recovering service members from Papua New Guinea in 1995. Years of investigation led to the disinterment of a set of remains from Manila American Cemetery, X-70 Finschhafen #2 in November 2016. The remains were sent to the DPAA Laboratory at Offutt Air Force Base, Nebraska, for analysis.
To identify Brinks’ remains, scientists from DPAA used dental and anthropological analysis, as well as circumstantial evidence. Additionally, scientists from the Armed Forces Medical Examiner System used mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) analysis.
Brinks’ name is recorded on the Walls of the Missing at the Manila American Cemetery and Memorial, along with others still missing from WWII. A rosette will be placed next to his name to indicate he has been accounted for.
Brinks will be buried on May 19, 2023, in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
For family and funeral information, contact the Army Casualty Office at (800) 892-2490.
DPAA is grateful to the American Battle Monuments Commission for their partnership in this mission.
For additional information on the Defense Department’s mission to account for Americans who went missing while serving our country, visit the DPAA website at www.dpaa.mil, find us on social media at www.facebook.com/dodpaa or https://www.linkedin.com/company/defense-pow-mia-accounting-agency.
Brinks’ personnel profile can be viewed at https://dpaa-mil.sites.crmforce.mil/dpaaProfile?id=a0Jt0000000XhEOEA0.
| Subject: | FW: Everett Alvarez, POW |
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| Date: | Sun, 14 May 2023 18:15:16 -0400 |
| From: | moehog@verizon.net |
| To: | moehog@verizon.net |
From the desk of Fred Ingley via STARES and STRIPES.
From:
Fred Ingley
Sent: 12 May, 2023 14:47
To:
moehog@verizon.net
Subject: Everett Alvarez, POW
Moe, thought you’d want to read this.
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https://www.foxnews.com/video/6327471774112?test=d19cd7c3ab6b6d98e91653bc59c3df12
‘Sunday Morning Futures’ anchor Maria Bartiromo reacts to WNBA player Brittney Griner’s national anthem comments after being detained in Russia.....
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Father Capodanno honored with
stained glass window at Christendom College in Virginia
1960's: One of the few Staten
Islanders to have been awarded the Congressional Medal of
Honor, Father Vincent Capodanno, was killed by an
enemy ...
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U.S. Sailor Who Died in
Pearl Harbor Attack Finally Identified; Burial to Be Held in ...
- Yahoo News
May 12—The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced it has identified
the remains of U.S. Navy Petty Officer Third Class
Cecil Barncord, ...
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Vietnam War spouses honored
with special project - Pop Smoke Media
The project is a collaboration
between the National League of POW/MIA
Families, the Virginia Women's Monument Commission,
and the Virginia General ...
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An Extraordinary Mission to
Find an American WWII Bomber Crew at the Bottom of the Pacific -
WSJ
A repatriation ceremony earlier this
year following an underwater operation by the
Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency to
recover remains of a U.S. ...
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U.S. Sailor Who Died in Pearl
Harbor Attack Finally Identified; Burial to Be Held in Mossyrock
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced it has identified the
remains of U.S. Navy Petty Officer Third Class Cecil
Barncord, ...
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Remains of WWII soldier
from SWFL returning to relatives after 80 years - WINK News
Marva gave a DNA sample to the
Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency,
which believed one set of human remains could be
those of Pharis Weekley.
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WWII soldier to be buried
in San Diego after 79 years thanks to DNA analysis - 10News.com
Fast forward to 2021, and a historian
from the Defense POW/MIA Accounting
Agency found a lead while studying unresolved
American losses in the ...
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May 12, 2023 Remains of Rochester World War II pilot are returning home - WHEC.com
Thanks to DNA and dental
records, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency
was able to match the remains to U.S. Army Air Forces Lt.
John Thomas.
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A war hero comes home;
remains of Rose native John B. Thomas arrive today, 80 years ...
The events follow the U.S. Defense
POW/MIA Accounting Agency announcement
last September that the airman's remains were
identified 79 years after ...
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CORPORAL CLARK E. WORLINE,
1930 - 1953 - Continental eNews
In August 2019 the
Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA)
disinterred X-14326 and accessioned the remains as
CIL 2019-301 for scientific ...
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U.S. soldier, formerly of
Radville, ID'd 70 years after death - SaskToday.ca
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency in the U.S. used dental,
anthropological and mitochondrial DNA analysis,
according to a report in the ...
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World War II Grand Rapids
soldier to be buried at Garfield Park Cemetery | WPBN
In recent years, the Defense
POW/MIA Accounting Agency reviewed an
unidentified set of remains that U.S. Army personnel
recovered from the ...
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Former Vietnam POW reflects
on the war, 50 years later | 13newsnow.com
Coker earned a Navy Cross,
Silver Star, Bronze Star, Distinguished Flying
Cross, Legion of Merit, and Purple Heart. In 2005,
He was honored by the ...
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Lawmakers reintroduce
legislation to address POW/MIA backlog
Lawmakers reintroduce legislation to
address POW/MIA backlog. Washington,
D.C. - Congressman Russ Fulcher (ID-01) and
Congressman Chris Pappas ...
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| Subject: | The creator of SERE training was one of 34 POWs to escape from the Viet Cong |
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Calif. woman visits White
River Jct. VA, caps promise to honor MIA soldier - WCAX
Kathy Strong was a special guest at
the VA Medical Center in White River Junction
Tuesday afternoon. When she was 12, she received an
MIA-POW bracelet ...
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As he marks 20 years since his
son was taken captive, Keith Maupin said ... Staff
Sergeant Matt Maupin was with the 724th
Transportation Company ...
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Rolling Thunder's 35th
Memorial Day Demonstration Parade set for May 28 - Daily Herald
This year's POW/MIA
awareness ride takes place May 28. Deb Gille ...
Demonstration Parade, a 54-mile ride intended to
increase POW/MIA awareness.
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The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency excavated the site and in August 2019,
recovered possible remains that were sent to the DPAA
Laboratory at ...
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Woman plans to honor the
same Vietnam vet in every state — even though she never met him
BELDING — Kathy Strong wore a POW/MIA
bracelet on her wrist for 38 years until the Vietnam
War veteran she was honoring came home.
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What does 'MIA'
mean? Behind the abbreviation and its grim military origins. -
MSN
"MIA," for example, is an acronym
with historical, military meaning. ... You may
recognize the black-and-white POW/MIA
flag, which honors and ...
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Radioman to Be Honored at
Mt Soledad Ceremony - San Diego Business Journal
Mintus had been one of three men
flying in a TBM Avenger. To identify Mintus'
remains, scientists from the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency used ..
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Grafton prepares for WWII
hero's funeral 80 years after he died - TMJ4
... the family received news they weren't
sure they'd ever receive — the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency had finally identified Harms' remains.
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Flags at half-staff
Saturday in honor of Lt. Roy Coulson Harms - NBC15
Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency began exhuming unknown remains
from Operation TIDAL WAVE in 2017. Now, Harms will
be buried with full military ...
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Flags in Wisconsin flying
half-staff in honor of Army Air Forces First Lieutenant Roy
Coulson Harms
Decades later in 2017, Harms' remains
were exhumed, then finally positively identified as
his by the POW / MIA Accounting
Agency.
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Flags to be lowered in
Wisconsin Saturday for pilot killed in World War II - WLUK
U.S. Army Air Forces 1st Lt. Roy C.
Harms of Grafton (Photo courtesy of The Defense
POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA).
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Evers orders flags to
half-staff Saturday for Grafton WWII veteran | News |
channel3000.com
His remains were exhumed in 2019 by
the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency
as part of a larger effort to identify soldiers
associated with ...
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Sister of Air Force officer
missing in Vietnam War presented Gold Star banner | Local News
Dugger was wearing a POW/MIA
(prisoner of war/missing in action) vest and
mentioned he was a high school classmate of Bobby
Marvin Jones, ...
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Soldier comes home at last |
Ozaukee Press
Harms' remains were brought to Milwaukee from
Nebraska, where they were identified last year by the
Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, ...
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Tampa WWII soldier to be
laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery - YouTube
The remains of a U.S. airman whose
plane was shot down over Germany during World War II
have been accounted for, the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting ...
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WWII Soldier remains to be
buried in Annville, Perry Co. | WHP - CBS 21
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency excavated the site in July and
August 2019, recovering possible material evidence,
and remains that were ...
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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/andr%C3%A1s-toma-the-last-wwii-prisoner-of-war-to-be-repatriated-in-2000/ar-AA1aEnXh?li=BBnb7Kz&pfr=1 The end of World War II was a logistical nightmare. Between Victory In Europe (VE) Day and September 1945, some 1,417,850 Americans alone were repatriated. Other countries also had to figure out what to do with the vast numbers of prisoners of war (POWs) they'd captured, all while welcoming home their own servicemen. With such high numbers, some were bound to slip through the cracks. One man, András Toma, wasn't sent home until 2000. |
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Search for remains of U.S.
WWII pilots underway in Poland - TVP World
Researchers from the Pomeranian
Medical University, together with partners from the
U.S. Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency
(DPAA), were searching ...
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Texas soldier accounted for
from Korean War - KXII
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced Wednesday the
remains of a Hunt County soldier, who went missing
in the Korean War, ...
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Kansas family says final
goodbye to sailor who died at Pearl Har - KAKE
So she wrote to the POW/MIA
people. And they said, 'Well, we've been trying to find
Melba for a long time.'" Clifford is the second Kansan
who ...
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Texas soldier accounted for
from Korea
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S.
Army Cpl. George T. Grimes, 19, of Quinlan, Texas,
who was killed during ...
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Kansas sailor killed at
Pearl Harbor finally laid to rest - KSN-TV
He was laid to rest on Tuesday (over
80 years later) with full military honors. Navy
Seaman 2nd Class Floyd F. Clifford (Courtesy:
Defense POW/MIA ...
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Nebraska lab identifies
military heroes through science | News | enidnews.com
OFFUTT AIR FORCE BASE, Neb. — Offutt
Air Force Base is home to one of three Defense
POW/MIA Accounting Agency labs in the
U.S., and one of the ...
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An Unwavering Fight for Honor -
The Cipher Brief
They describe in detail how POW/MIA
wives transitioned from ... as they formed the National
League of Families of POWs and MIAs in Southeast Asia.
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US Army soldier killed in
Korean War returns home to Lompoc | San Luis Obispo Tribune
An American solder who died in South
Korea was buried in Lompoc, California, after
Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency
recovered his remains.
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'Ambushed': Former Marine Is Latest Veteran Killed in Ukraine War
A Marine veteran was killed last week in an eastern Ukrainian city where the country's military has been locked for months in intense fighting with Russian forces, according to multiple sources. ...
Cooper "Harris" Andrews, 26, was killed in Bakhmut, where he was ambushed by Russian forces while defending evacuees, journalist Jake Hanrahan tweeted Sunday on Twitter. Hanrahan said Andrews was killed alongside other "fighters" and was a member of Popular Front, a grassroots conflict journalism platform....~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
WASHINGTON — Bound to Sudan by ailing parents and his devotion to treating the poor there, American doctor Bushra Ibnauf Sulieman kept working as long as he could after fighting engulfed Sudan’s capital.
For days after battles between two rival Sudanese commanders erupted in Khartoum on April 15, the 49-year-old Sulieman treated the city’s wounded. He and other doctors ventured out as explosions shook the walls of homes where Khartoum’s people cowered inside. Gunfire between the two factions battling for control resounded in the streets.
“Say, ‘Nothing will happen to us except what God has decreed for us,’” Sulieman, a U.S.-born gastroenterologist who divided his time and work between Iowa City, Iowa, and Khartoum, said in one of his last messages to worried friends on Facebook last week, as fighting persisted. ”And in God let the believers put their trust.”
The morning that Sulieman decided he had to risk the dangerous escape from Sudan’s capital with his parents, American wife and his two American children was the morning that the war found Sulieman, friends say.
In the wholesale looting that has accompanied fighting in the capital, Khartoum, a city of 5 million, a roving band of strangers surrounded him in his yard Tuesday, stabbing him to death in front of his family. Friends suspect robbery was the motive. He became one of two Americans confirmed killed in Sudan in the fighting, both dual nationals......
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Dr. Bob's House Call:
Navy SEAL Widow Finally Awarded Claim for Over $200000
The widow of a Navy SEAL is,
after his death, awarded over $200000 and monthly.
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DPAA Nebraska lab:
Identifying military heroes through science - Offutt Air Force
Base
Offutt Air Force Base is home to one
of three Defense POW/MIA Accounting
Agency labs in the U.S., and one of the things that
stands out about the ...
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Remains of Lompoc soldier
returned home 70 years after he was killed in Korean War
31, 1953, according to U.S. Defense
POW/MIA Accounting Agency records.
According to a Lompoc Record newspaper clipping,
dated March 8, 1951, ...
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Service held to honor World
War II veteran - Yahoo News
... near Versailles, according to a
report provided by the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency. The airplane was struck by
anti-aircraft fire, ...
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Cpl. Story's remains were
delivered to his bereaved family | The DONG-A ILBO
... 2023, when the U.S. Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA) confirmed that one of the
unidentified remains exhumed in South Korea in the
past ...
Remains of Buena
Vista Korean War hero found, President Biden announces
According to the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency, Story will be buried on May
29 in Andersonville, Georgia. Here's how the
National Medal of ...
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Mount Hermon Korean War
casualty to be buried in McComb - The Era-Leader
According to testimony provided by
repatriated POWs after the war, ... Scientific analysis
by the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency
Laboratory ...
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IIn
the intercepted phone call, the serviceman, identified by the SBU as Yevgeny
Suchko, can be heard
describing in detail how he slit the throats of Ukrainians.
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Veterans minister consoles
family of decorated US soldier killed in Korean War
POW
and MIA stand for prisoner of war and missing in
action, respectively. The soil, along with a framed photo of
him, was handed over to his niece, ...
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How A Group Of Women
Compelled The Government To Find America's Missing In Action
She is sitting at her desk in Falls
Church, Virginia, on a sweltering summer day, across
from three officials from the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting ...
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Remains of Medal of
Honor recipient killed in the Korean War identified nearly
73 years later
... identified 73 years after he was
declared missing and was awarded the Medal of
Honor for bravery, U.S. and South Korean
officials said Wednesday.
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Remains of South Korea
Medal of Honor hero identified after 73 years - Army Times
Story was posthumously given the
Medal of Honor — the nation's highest military
award — in June 1951. Eleven months earlier, Story
was a 19-year-old ...
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Medal of Honor
recipient's remains ID'd 73 years after Korea | PHL17.com
WASHINGTON (AP) — The remains of a
U.S. Army corporal killed during the Korean War have
been identified 73 years after he was declared
missing and ...
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Medal of Honor
Recipient's Remains ID'd 73 Years After Korea | Military.com
The remains of a U.S. Army corporal
killed during the Korean War and posthumously
awarded the Medal of Honor have been
identified, 73 years after ...
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Joint Statement from the
Presidents of the United States of America and the ... - The
White House
Corporal Story was awarded the
nation's highest award for his heroic actions that
day. Within his Medal of Honor Citation are
statements of his ...
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Medal of Honor
recipient's remains identified 73 years after his death in
Korean War
The White House and the Republic of
Korea praised 19-year-old Luther Story's
"conspicuous bravery" during the battle that led to
his death.
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Medal of Honor
recipient in Korean War will be laid to rest back in Georgia
after remains identified
Army Corporal Luther H. Story was
killed in action in the Korean War and his remains
have now been identified.
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Medal of Honor
Soldier Accounted For From Korea (Story, L.)
Luther H. Story, 19, of Americus,
Georgia, killed during the Korean War, and
posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor, was
accounted for April 6, 2023.
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Medal of Honor
recipient's remains ID'd 73 years after Korea - KGET.com
Medal of Honor
recipient's remains ID'd 73 years after Korea ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The remains of a U.S. Army
corporal killed during the Korean War have ...
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https://nypost.com/2023/04/22/explorers-find-wwii-ship-sunk-with-over-1000-allied-pows/
....A Japanese merchant ship sunk during World War II while carrying more than 1,000 Allied prisoners of war has been found, officials announced Saturday.
The Montevideo Maru was torpedoed on July 1, 1942, off the coast of the Philippines by a United States submarine whose crew did not realize the vessel carried prisoners of war.
It was Australia’s largest maritime wartime loss with a total of 1,080 lives.....
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Don Nelson POW/MIA
package - YouTube
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13, 2023. Don Nelson POW/MIA package …
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From: DPAA NCR OC
Mailbox Public Affairs <dpaa.ncr.oc.mbx.public-affairs@mail.mil>
Sent: 27 April, 2023 12:14
Subject: DPAA News Release - Arkansas Airman Accounted For From
WWII
Greetings,
Staff Sgt, Kolb was accounted for in September 2022, but his family only recently received their full briefing on his identification, which is why this release is going out now.
April 27, 2023
WASHINGTON—The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Army Air Forces Staff Sgt. Ralph D. Kolb, 19, of McGehee, Arkansas, killed during World War II, was accounted for Sept. 14, 2022.
In the summer of 1943, Kolb was assigned to the 343rd Bombardment Squadron (Heavy), 98th Bombardment Group (Heavy), 9th Air Force. On Aug. 1, 1943, the B-24 Liberator bomber on which Kolb was the assistant radio operator was hit by enemy anti-aircraft fire and crashed during Operation TIDAL WAVE, the largest bombing mission against the oil fields and refineries at Ploiesti, north of Bucharest, Romania. His remains were not identified following the war. The remains that could not be identified were buried as Unknowns in the Hero Section of the Civilian and Military Cemetery of Bolovan, Ploiesti, Prahova, Romania.
Following the war, the American Graves Registration Command (AGRC), the organization that searched for and recovered fallen American personnel, disinterred all American remains from the Bolovan Cemetery for identification. The AGRC was unable to identify more than 80 unknowns from Bolovan Cemetery, and those remains were permanently interred at Ardennes American Cemetery and Henri-Chapelle American Cemetery, both in Belgium.
In 2017, DPAA began exhuming unknowns believed to be associated with unaccounted-for airmen from Operation TIDAL WAVE losses. These remains were sent to the DPAA Laboratory for examination and identification.
To identify Kolb’s remains, scientists from DPAA used anthropological analysis, as well as circumstantial evidence. Additionally, scientists from the Armed Forces Medical Examiner System used mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) and Y chromosome DNA (Y-STR) analysis.
Kolb’s name is recorded on the Tablets of the Missing at the Florence American Cemetery, an American Battle Monuments Commission site in Impruneta, Italy, along with others still missing from WWII. A rosette will be placed next to his name to indicate he has been accounted for.
Kolb will be buried in McGehee, Arkansas on June 14, 2023.
For family and funeral information, contact the Army Casualty Office at (800) 892-2490.
DPAA is grateful to the American Battle Monuments Commission and to the U.S. Army Regional Mortuary-Europe/Africa for their partnership in this mission.
For additional information on the Defense Department’s mission to account for Americans who went missing while serving our country, visit the DPAA website at www.dpaa.mil or find us on social media at www.facebook.com/dodpaa or https://www.linkedin.com/company/defense-pow-mia-accounting-agency.
Kolb’s personnel profile can be viewed at https://dpaa-mil.sites.crmforce.mil/dpaaProfile?id=a0Jt0000000Xe7cEAC.
CC: from M L.....
....learned today that former Vietnam POW, CAPT Wayne K. Goodermote took his final carrier shot and flew West on Thursday, 20 April 2023.
Funeral information will be posted when known.
https://www.pownetwork.org/bios/g/g053.htm
Wayne K. Goodermote Veteran Tribute
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Medal of Honor recipient's remains ID'd 73 years
after Korea
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Medal of Honor recipient's remains
ID'd 73 years after his death in Korean War
U.S. Army Corporeal Luther Story is
pictured in this image provided by the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency. / Credit: Defense POW/MIA
Accounting ...
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Medal of Honor recipient's
remains identified 73 years after he was killed in the Korean War
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that it had
identified the remains of Army Cpl. Luther H. Story,
decades after he was ...
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World War II soldier's remains
to be buried in Grafton - WISN
In 2017, the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency began exhuming unknowns believed to be
associated with unaccounted-for airmen from Operation
TIDAL WAVE ...
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Remains of Sumter Co. soldier
killed in Korean War identified 72 years after his death
According to the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA), 11 sets of remains were
recovered near Sangde-po, South Korea, and eight
were ...
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New Attention on Korean War
Hero - AUSA
... the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency inspected Unknown X-260 Tanggok, a
set of remains recovered near Sangde-po, South
Korea, according to ...
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New Pole Proposal Raises
Flag Debate in Oak Bluffs - The Vineyard Gazette
... a policy allowing only the
American flag, Massachusetts state flag, Oak Bluffs
flag, POW-MIA flag and military flags
to be flown by the town.
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Wisconsin World War II
veteran identified, to be buried in Grafton - TMJ4
However, in 2017, the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency began exhuming unknowns that were
believed to be associated with Operation Tidal Wave.
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Medal of Honor recipient's
remains identified 73 years after his death in Korean War
U.S. Army Corporeal Luther Story is
pictured in this image provided by the Defense
POW/MIA Accounting Agency. Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency.
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Remains of South Korea
Medal of Honor hero identified after 73 years - Air Force Times
Story will be buried in his home
state of Georgia in a ceremony scheduled for May 29,
according to officials from the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting ...
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Army Medal of Honor
recipient and Korean War veteran remains identified | Article
WASHINGTON – The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency has positively identified the
remains of Army Corporal Luther H. Sto ry, a Medal
of Honor ...
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Remains of Sumter Co. teen
solder killed in Korean War identified 73 years later | WGXA
In a media release, the Defense
POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA)
announced the remains of Army Cpl. Luther H. Story,
19 at the time of his death, ...
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Unknown no more, remains
matched to Georgia soldier killed in Korean War
The identification comes as the
result of the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency inspection of the remains of 652
Korean War veterans who had been ...
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Medal of Honor Soldier
Accounted For From Korea (Story, L.)
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that Army
Cpl. Luther H. Story, 19, of Americus, Georgia,
killed during the Korean ...
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Put Out Fewer Flags? -
National Review
... the service flags of the Army,
Navy, Marine Corps, and Air Force, and the POW/MIA
flag, and which one did Lakewood think should be
removed?
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Joint Statement from the
Presidents of the United States of America and the ... - The
White House
In June 2021, as part of the plan to
disinter 652 Korean War Unknowns from the National
Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific (NMCP), the Defense
POW/MIA ...
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Yoon, Biden adopt statement
on identification of fallen U.S. soldier | Yonhap News Agency
... the U.S. Medal of Honor in June
1951, but his remains were only identified by the
U.S. Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency
earlier this month.
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Remains of Army POW from
Korean War to be laid to rest in McComb - SuperTalk Mississippi
According to the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA), U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class Ellis
Coon's remains were discovered on September 27, 2022.
Korean War POW/MIA's
remains will be laid to rest today in McComb - Darkhorse
Press
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency announced today that U.S. Army
Sgt. 1st Class Ellis Coon, 30, Mount Herman,
Louisiana, ...
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POW
/ MIA Advocate to Speak in Salina - KSAL News
Additionally, a new site at the war
memorial will be unveiled and dedicated to 11
POWs from Saline County and Major Dennis Pugh,
USN, still MIA.
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Floyd Francis Clifford |
Obituaries - Derby Informer
His name appears on the war memorial
at The National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific
which will now have a rosette. In 2015, the Defense
POW/MIA ...
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From: DPAA NCR OC
Mailbox Public Affairs <dpaa.ncr.oc.mbx.public-affairs@mail.mil>
Sent: 26 April, 2023 09:01
Subject: DPAA News Release - Georgia Medal of Honor Soldier
Accounted For From Korea
Greetings,
April 26, 2023
WASHINGTON—The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that Army Cpl. Luther H. Story, 19, of Americus, Georgia, killed during the Korean War, and posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor, was accounted for April 6, 2023.
In late 1950, Story was a member of Alpha Company, 1st Battalion, 9th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Infantry Division. On Sept. 1, 1950, Story was reported killed in action after his unit was engaged by the Korean People’s Army near Naktong River, South Korea. There is no indication his remains were recovered after the battle, and he was never recorded as a prisoner of war. The Army issued a presumptive finding of death on Sept. 1, 1953, and his remains were determined to be nonrecoverable in January 1956.
In October 1950, 11 sets of remains were recovered near Sangde-po, South Korea, eight were identified. One set remains designated X-260 Tanggok thought to be Story, but investigators at the Central Identification Unit-Kokura in Japan didn’t have enough identifying data to positively ID the remains. X-260 was later transported with all of the unidentified Korean War remains and buried as an Unknown at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, also known as the Punchbowl, in Honolulu, Hawaii.
In July 2018, the DPAA proposed a plan to disinter 652 Korean War Unknowns from the Punchbowl. In June 2021, the DPAA disinterred X-260 as part of Phase Three of the Korean War Disinterment Plan and sent the remains to the DPAA laboratory at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii, for analysis.
To identify Story’s remains, scientists from DPAA used dental and anthropological analysis. Additionally, scientists from the Armed Forces Medical Examiner System used mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) analysis.
Story’s name is recorded on the American Battle Monuments Commission’s Courts of the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in Honolulu, along with the others who are still missing from the Korean War. A rosette will be placed next to his name to indicate he has been accounted for.
Story will be buried in Andersonville, Georgia, on May 29, 2023.
For family and funeral information, contact the Army Casualty Office at (800) 892-2490.
To see the most up-to-date statistics on DPAA recovery efforts for those unaccounted for from the Korean War, go to the Korean War fact sheet on the DPAA website at: https://www.dpaa.mil/Resources/Fact-Sheets/Article-View/Article/569610/progress-on-korean-war-personnel-accounting/
For additional information on the Defense Department’s mission to account for Americans who went missing while serving our country, visit the DPAA website at www.dpaa.mil, or find us on social media at www.facebook.com/dodpaa or https://www.linkedin.com/company/defense-pow-mia-accounting-agency.
Read the joint statement from the Presidents of the United States of America
and the Republic of Korea on the Identification of Medal of Honor Recipient
from Korean War on Cpl. Story at
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2023/04/26/joint-statement-from-the-presidents-of-the-united-states-of-america-and-the-republic-of-korea-on-the-identification-of-medal-of-honor-recipient-from-korean-war/.
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Navy divers comb a Pacific
graveyard, seeking lost World War II airmen - The Washington Post
Earlier this month, a team of elite Navy
divers and archaeologists from the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA) ended a five-week, ...
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World War II bombardier's
remains returned to Forrest County home soil - WDAM
He was originally buried as an
“unknown” in a Romanian cemetery. But several years
ago, his remains were exhumed and identified by the
Defense POW/MIA ...
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Former POWs visit Dover AFB - DVIDS
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Floyd Clifford Obituary (1921 -
1941) - Mulvane, KS - Wichita Eagle - Legacy.com
In 2015, the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA) exhumed the unidentified remains of
394 sailors and marines lost on the Oklahoma, ...
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80 years later, WWII
pilot's remains coming home to Rochester - WHAM
... until the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency began exhuming those "believed to
be associated with unaccounted-for airmen from
Operation TIDAL ...
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Lt. Harms is coming home | The
American Legion
Harms' name was listed on the Wall of Honor
at the Florence American Cemetery in Italy, but it wasn't
until the early 2000s that the Defense POW/MIA ...
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Remains of Cambria County
WWII Sgt. to be buried in Portage - WTAJ
U.S. Army Air Forces Tech. Sgt. John
Holoka Jr. Image provided by the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency.
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Service scheduled for
Kansas sailor killed at Pearl Harbor - KSN-TV
In 2015, the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA) exhumed the unidentified
sailors for analysis using modern forensic
technology.
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Remains of Korean War Soldier
to be buried in Peoria - KHQA
8, 2018, and transferred to the Defense
POW/MIA Accounting Agency Laboratory at Joint
Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii for analysis.
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Missing in action: Rochester
pilot's remains identified 80 years after notorious air raid |
nny360.com
U.S. Army Air Forces 1st Lt. John B. Thomas
was part of Operation Tidal Wave, according to the federal
Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency.
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Chicago families receive
updates on ID missing servicemembers - CBS News
Fern Sumpter Winbush and Dr. Debra
Prince Zinni are with the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency. Their teams recover and identify
soldier remains ...
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Missing in action: Rochester
pilot's remains identified 80 years after notorious air raid | Local
News
U.S. Army Air Force 1st Lt. John B. Thomas was
part of Operation Tidal Wave, according to the federal Defense
POW/MIA Accounting Agency.
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Nearly 80 years after he was
killed in WWII, soldier to be buried in North Arlington
... when the family got a call from
someone at Fort Knox, saying the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency, or DPAA, had identified his body.
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WWII pilot to be buried in NY, 80 years after his death - PIX11
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“I started to scratch my head with that. I was like, ‘Welcome to Missouri!’
Does everybody have to go through this? That’s insane.”...
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Subject: Warsaw Ghetto Uprising commemorated on 80th anniversary
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I hope that Americans have the courage and determination that those heroic Polish Jewish fighters displayed should the need arise.
Forwarded BCC.
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https://nypost.com/2023/04/20/search-for-3-missing-american-sailors-suspended-in-mexico/
From: DPAA NCR OC
Mailbox Public Affairs <dpaa.ncr.oc.mbx.public-affairs@mail.mil>
Sent: 20 April, 2023 08:24
To: Undisclosed recipients:
Subject: DPAA News Release - New York Pilot Accounted For From
WWII
Greetings,
1st Lt. Thomas was accounted for in October 2022, but his family only recently received their full briefing on his identification, which is why this release is going out now.
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Army Air Forces 1st Lt. John B. Thomas, 23, of Rochester, New York, killed during World War II, was accounted for Sept. 30, 2022.
In the summer of 1943, Thomas was assigned to the 345th Bombardment Squadron (Heavy), 98th Bombardment Group (Heavy), 9th Air Force. On Aug. 1, the B-24 Liberator bomber Thomas was piloting was hit by enemy anti-aircraft fire and crashed during Operation TIDAL WAVE, the largest bombing mission against the oil fields and refineries at Ploiesti, north of Bucharest, Romania. His remains were not identified following the war. The remains that could not be identified were buried as Unknowns in the Hero Section of the Civilian and Military Cemetery of Bolovan, Ploiesti, Prahova, Romania.
Following the war, the American Graves Registration Command (AGRC), the organization that searched for and recovered fallen American personnel, disinterred all American remains from the Bolovan Cemetery for identification. The AGRC was unable to identify more than 80 unknowns from Bolovan Cemetery, and those remains were permanently interred at Ardennes American Cemetery and Henri-Chapelle American Cemetery, both in Belgium.
In 2017, DPAA began exhuming unknowns believed to be associated with unaccounted-for airmen from Operation TIDAL WAVE losses. These remains were sent to the DPAA Laboratory at Offutt Air Force Base, Nebraska, for examination and identification.
To identify Thomas’ remains, scientists from DPAA used dental and anthropological analysis, as well as circumstantial evidence. Additionally, scientists from the Armed Forces Medical Examiner System used mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) and Y chromosome DNA (Y-STR) analysis.
Thomas’ name is recorded on the Tablets of the Missing at the Florence American Cemetery, an American Battle Monuments Commission site in Impruneta, Italy, along with others still missing from WWII. A rosette will be placed next to his name to indicate he has been accounted for.
Thomas will be buried in North Rose, New York on May 20, 2023.
For family and funeral information, contact the Army Casualty Office at (800) 892-2490.
DPAA is grateful to the American Battle Monuments Commission and to the U.S. Army Regional Mortuary-Europe/Africa for their partnership in this mission.
For additional information on the Defense Department’s mission to account for Americans who went missing while serving our country, visit the DPAA website at www.dpaa.mil or find us on social media at www.facebook.com/dodpaa or https://www.linkedin.com/company/defense-pow-mia-accounting-agency.
Thomas’ personnel profile can be viewed at https://dpaa-mil.sites.crmforce.mil/dpaaProfile?id=a0Jt00000004pKVEAY.
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Remains of Korean War Soldier
to be buried in Lompoc - KSBY
22, 2021, and sent to the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA) Laboratory at Joint Base Pearl
Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii for analysis.
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Soldier Accounted For
From Korean War (Crotty, R.)
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that
Army Sgt. Richard E. Crotty, 22, of Geneva,
Illinois, killed during the Korean ...
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Remains of Army POW
from Korean War identified - Army Times
... 503rd Field Artillery
Battalion, 2nd Infantry Division, according to
an April 5 release from the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency.
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Remains identified as
soldier from Geneva killed during Korean War - Chicago
Tribune
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency announced Monday that the
remains of Army Sgt. Richard E. Crotty, 22, of
Geneva, killed during the Korean ...
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Help identify remaining
'unknown' USS Arizona servicemembers | The American Legion
... or know someone who may be,
you can begin by contacting a Service Casualty
Office (SCO) through the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency website.
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Vietnam War Fast Facts
- KAKE
US Troop Statistics ... The total
of American servicemen listed as POW/MIA
at the end of the war was 2,646. As of April 14,
2023, 1,579 soldiers remain ...
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MTSU Mondays: Aerospace
proposal to relocate, searching for military service remains
... France to sites associated
with missing U.S. military personnel from World
War II in collaboration with the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency.
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Salina designated as
second official Kansas POW-MIA City - WIBW
The City of Salina has been
designated as the second in the state to be
declared an official POW-MIA City
as it is the 50th in the nation to do ...
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'An Easter exchange':
130 Ukrainian prisoners of war freed - Al Jazeera
Ukrainian official confirms
exchange of POWs on the day Orthodox
Christians in Ukraine and Russia celebrate
Easter.
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Column: MIA families
bear wounds that won't heal
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA) was created in 2015 to make
good on the American warriors' ethos: Never leave a
fallen comrade.
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WWII pilot from
Southern Illinois who was thought to be MIA gets
proper burial after remains identified
Schrader was killed during World
War II and was accounted for on Sept. 27, 2022
by the Defense POW/MIA Accounting
Agency. Staff Sgt. David Owsianka, ...
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DPAA holds first
honorable carry ceremony at Offutt since runway reopened ...
- Offutt Air Force Base
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency laboratory will now begin the
extensive process to identify the remains, which
can take anywhere from a few ...
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Remains of WWII U.S.
Army Air Force bombardier to be laid to rest in Mississippi
On September 7, 2022, the Defense
POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA)
identified the remains of Second Lieutenant
Theodore Frank Scarborough, who served ...
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The family of former U.S. Marine Paul Whelan is begging the Biden admin to release their son as negotiations with Russia start to release detained WJ reporter Evan Gershkovich.
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War in Ukraine: Video of
alleged Ukrainian pow beheading surfaces online | The
Cairns Post
Cairns City Library covered
in graffiti overnight · Miley Cyrus set to release a new
album that's 'packed with break-up songs' · RMT members
at Network ...
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Remains of World War II
soldier to be buried in Mississippi - WJTV
In 2017, the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency began exhuming unknowns
believed to be associated with unaccounted-for
airmen from Operation TIDAL ...
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Gruesome Video Appears to
Show Ukrainian PoW's Beheading - The Moscow Times
... and several videos
alleging to show PoW killings have made the
rounds on the internet. AFP contributed
reporting. Read more about: Ukraine war ...
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Video online of suspected
beheading of POW sparks shock - BreakingLatest.news
... beheading of POW
sparks shock online report Political situation
12.04.2023 A video of a beheading that swirled on the
Internet caused shock ...
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WWII airman finally
finds rest as body returns to Mississippi almost 78 years
later - WDAM
In 2017, the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA) began exhuming those
unknown remains for comparison with the
unaccounted-for airmen lost ...
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Soldier's remains to
return on Friday - Yahoo News
Apr. 11—A Northumberland soldier
killed during World War II who was been
positively identified by the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA) ...
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Hattiesburg WWII war
hero will return home after 80 years - Darkhorse Press
On September 7, 2022, the Defense
POW/MIA Accounting Agency
identified the remains of 2LT Theodore Frank
Scarborough, missing from World War II.
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April 12, 2023
April 11, 2023
From: DPAA NCR OC
Mailbox Public Affairs <dpaa.ncr.oc.mbx.public-affairs@mail.mil>
Sent: 5 April, 2023 10:17
To: Undisclosed recipients:
Subject: DPAA News Release - Louisiana Soldier Accounted For From
Korea
Greetings,
Sgt. 1st Class Coon was accounted for in September 2022, but his family only recently received their full briefing on his identification, which is why this release is going out now.
April 5, 2023
WASHINGTON—The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class Ellis Coon, 30, Mount Herman, Louisiana, who died as a prisoner of war during the Korean War, was accounted for Sept. 27, 2022.
In late 1950, Coon was a member of C Battery, 503rd Field Artillery Battalion, 2nd Infantry Division. He was reported missing in action on Dec. 1, 1950, after his unit was engaged in the
Battle of Ch’ongch’on, in the vicinity of Kunu-ri, North Korea. Using information provided by repatriated POWs after the war, it was determined that Coon had been a Prisoner of War in Camp #5 and died of malnutrition and lack of medical care on or around Feb. 14, 1951. The Army issued a presumptive finding of death in March 1954 and declared Coon non-recoverable in January 1956.
On Dec. 21, 1993, North Korea unilaterally turned over 34 boxes of remains believed to be of U.S. service members who had died during the war. Among these remains were some reportedly recovered from Tongju-ri, Pyokdong County, North Phyongan Province—the same area as POW Camp #5. Scientific analysis by the DPAA Laboratory found that the five boxes of remains recovered from Tongu-ri contained commingled skeletal remains of several individuals.
To identify Coon’s remains, scientists from DPAA used anthropological analysis, as well as circumstantial evidence. Additionally, scientists from the Armed Forces Medical Examiner System used mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) and autosomal DNA (auSTR) analysis.
Coon’s name is recorded on the Courts of the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific also known as the Punchbowl Cemetery, along with the others who are still missing from the Korean War. A rosette will be placed next to his name to indicate he has been accounted for.
Coon’s burial date and location has yet to be determined.
For family and funeral information, contact the Army Casualty Office at (800) 892-2490.
To see the most up-to-date statistics on DPAA recovery efforts for those unaccounted for from the Korean War, go to the Korean War Accounting page on the DPAA website at: https://dpaa-mil.sites.crmforce.mil/dpaaFamWebKorean.
For additional information on the Defense Department’s mission to account for Americans who went missing while serving our country, visit the DPAA website at www.dpaa.mil, find us on social media at www.facebook.com/dodpaa or https://www.linkedin.com/company/defense-pow-mia-accounting-agency.
Coon’s personnel profile can be viewed at https://dpaa-mil.sites.crmforce.mil/dpaaProfile?id=a0Jt0000008XqlCEAS.
From: DPAA NCR OC
Mailbox Public Affairs <dpaa.ncr.oc.mbx.public-affairs@mail.mil>
Sent: 6 April, 2023 12:28
To: Undisclosed recipients:
Subject: DPAA News Release - USS Oklahoma Sailor From New Jersey
Accounted For From WWII
Greetings,
MATT2c Callahan was accounted for in January 2017, but his family only recently received their full briefing on his identification, which is why this release is going out now.
April 6, 2023
WASHINGTON—The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that Navy Mess Attendant 2nd Class Archie Callahan, Jr., 19, of Newark, New Jersey, killed during World War II, was accounted for on Nov. 27, 2017.
On Dec. 7, 1941, Callahan was assigned to the battleship USS Oklahoma, which was moored at Ford Island, Pearl Harbor, when the ship was attacked by Japanese aircraft. The USS Oklahoma sustained multiple torpedo hits, which caused it to quickly capsize. The attack on the ship resulted in the deaths of 429 crewmen, including Callahan.
From December 1941 to June 1944, Navy personnel recovered the remains of the deceased crew, which were subsequently interred in the Halawa and Nu’uanu Cemeteries.
In September 1947, tasked with recovering and identifying fallen U.S. personnel in the Pacific Theater, members of the American Graves Registration Service (AGRS) disinterred the remains of U.S. casualties from the two cemeteries and transferred them to the Central Identification Laboratory at Schofield Barracks. The laboratory staff was only able to confirm the identifications of 35 men from the USS Oklahoma at that time. The AGRS subsequently buried the unidentified remains in 46 plots at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific (NMCP), known as the Punchbowl, in Honolulu. In October 1949, a military board classified those who could not be identified as non-recoverable, including Callahan.
Between June and November 2015, DPAA personnel exhumed the USS Oklahoma Unknowns from the Punchbowl for analysis.
To identify Callahan’s remains, scientists from DPAA used dental and anthropological analysis. Additionally, scientists from the Armed Forces Medical Examiner System used mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA), analysis.
Callahan’s name is recorded on the Courts of the Missing at the Punchbowl, along with the others who are missing from WWII. A rosette will be placed next to his name to indicate he has been accounted for.
Callahan will be buried on May 5, 2023, in Arlington National Cemetery.
For family and funeral information, contact the Navy Service Casualty office at (800) 443-9298.
DPAA is grateful to the Department of Veterans Affairs and the Department of the Navy for their partnership in this mission.
For additional information on the Defense Department’s mission to account for Americans who went missing while serving our country, visit the DPAA website at www.dpaa.mil, find us on social media at www.facebook.com/dodpaa or https://www.linkedin.com/company/defense-pow-mia-accounting-agency.
Callahan’s personnel profile can be viewed at https://dpaa-mil.sites.crmforce.mil/dpaaProfile?id=a0Jt0000000XeJcEAK
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Kansas sailor who died at Pearl
Harbor to be laid to rest - Hays Post
On Thursday, the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA) confirmed that Navy
Electrician's Mate 3rd Class Cecil E. Barncord, 24,
Topeka, Kansas, ...
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Pilot Accounted For From
Vietnam War (De Soto, E.)
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S.
Air Force Major Ernest L. De Soto, 37, killed during
the Vietnam War, ...
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From Korea to Afghanistan: Special Forces Legend Billy Waugh's Amazing Career Spanned Five Decades The unparalleled godfather of the Green Berets, and CIA septuagenarian at the spearhead of early operations in Afghanistan, passed away Tuesday. He was 93.
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Kansan killed at Pearl Harbor
to be laid to rest - MSN
Navy Electrician's Mate 3rd
Class Cecil E. Barncord (Courtesy Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency) © Provided by KSNW Wichita.
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Remains of Michigan airman
killed in World War II identified 79 years later - Yahoo News
Credit: Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency. Remains that could not be
identified were buried as "Unknowns" in the Hero
Section of the Civilian and ...
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| April 6, 2023 | |
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Remains Of American Airman
Killed In WWII Bombing Raid Over Romania Identified After ...
... over Romania have been
identified after nearly 80 years, the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced in a Wednesday press
release.
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Missing WWII soldier's
remains to be laid to rest on April 22 | News | dailyitem.com
A Northumberland soldier killed
during World War II who was been positively
identified by the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA) is ...
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Remains of World War II
airman identified after 79 years - New York Post
Second Lieutenant Peter A. Timpo, 24,
of Ecorse, was a bombardier with the 343rd
Bombardment Squadron in the summer of 1943, the
Defense POW/MIA ...
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Officials successfully ID
WWII remains as Downriver Airman - Audacy
It's been almost 80 years since
Ecorse native and U.S. Army Air Forces 2nd Lt. Photo
credit Defense POW/MIA Accounting
Agency Media Gallery. DAPP said ...
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POW/MIA
Agency identifies Detroit-area airman killed in WWII - Military
Times
Authorities have identified the
remains of a Detroit-area man who died when his
aircraft was shot down in Romania during World War
II.
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POW/MIA
Agency identifies Detroit-area airman killed in WWII - Yahoo
News
POW/MIA
Agency identifies Detroit-area airman killed in
WWII. Ap Reports. Thu, April 6, 2023 at 5:51 AM PDT
·1 min read. Alex Wong. ECORSE, Mich.
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USS Oklahoma Sailor
Accounted For From World War II (Callahan, A.)
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that Navy
Mess Attendant 2nd Class Archie Callahan, Jr., 19,
of Newark, New Jersey, ...
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Remains of Michigan airman
killed in World War II's "Operation Tidal Wave" identified 79
years later
Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency. Remains that could not be
identified were buried as "Unknowns" in the Hero
Section of the Civilian and Military ...
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Remains of Michigan soldier
killed during World War II to be buried at Arlington Cemetery
U.S. Army Air Forces 2nd Lt. Peter A.
Timpo, 24, of Ecorse, was accounted for July 20,
2022, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting
Agency announced this ...
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Remains of World War II
POW, Bataan Death March survivor identified - Army Times
... in 1941 when Japanese forces
invaded the Philippine Islands in December,
according to a release from the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency.
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Kansan killed at Pearl
Harbor to be laid to rest - KSN-TV
Navy Electrician's Mate 3rd Class
Cecil E. Barncord (Courtesy Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency). WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) — A Kansas
sailor who died ...
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Remains of Michigan airman
killed in World War II identified 79 years later - WSGW
Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency. Remains that could not be
identified were buried as “Unknowns” in the Hero
Section of the Civilian and Military ...
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Local Korean War soldier
identified after nearly 70 years - KMOV
U.S. Army Sgt. Merritt Wynn was
reported missing in action while fighting in the Korean War.
He was awarded the Silver Star for his service there.
His ...
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Remains of Centralia man
killed in Korean War coming home - FOX 2
1, 2018, and turned over to the
Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA)
to be identified. Scientists from the DPAA and the
Armed Forces Medical ...
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Government identifies
Detroit-area airman killed in WWII | AP News
... but his family only recently
received a full briefing, according to the Defense
POW/MIA Accounting Agency. After the
war, the 24-year-old's ...
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Frank Ferrel Obituary (1912 -
2023) - Roby, TX - Sweetwater Reporter - Legacy.com
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced that U.S. Army Air Forces
Tech Sgt. Frank C. Ferrel, 31, of Roby, Texas, killed
during ...
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Soldier Accounted For From
Korean War (Coon, E.) - Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Army Sgt.
1st Class Ellis Coon, 30, Mount Herman, Louisiana, ...
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“Remember the Ladies!” by
Taylor Baldwin Kiland - Coronado Times
The roles Coronado POW wives like
Sybil Stockdale, Sherry Martin, ... Members of the
League of POW/MIA Wives at the Paris
Peace Talks, ...
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USS Oklahoma Sailor
Accounted For From World War II (Allen, S.)
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that Naval
Reserve Ensign Stanley W. Allen, 25, killed during
World War II, ...
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Thank you, Sparta
residents, for choosing to honor the American and POW-MIA
flags
Additionally, the POW-MIA
flag represents more than 81,500 Americans—military
members from all walks of life— who sacrificed for
our country ...
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Family of MIA
soldier finally at peace in Lincoln after remains identified
In October 2022, the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency identified Zich's remains, thanks
to a wisdom tooth that was received from a
Vietnamese ...
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Unknown soldiers' remains
unloaded during special Offutt ceremony - KETV
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA) has two labs in the United
States. The larger of the two is in Hawaii, the
second in Bellevue on ...
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Travis AFB commemorates
Operation Homecoming 50th anniversary > Travis Air Force ...
... attended by former POWs, Vietnam
veterans and members of Team Travis. ... the Vietnam
War and hear from the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency.
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Fallen soldiers honored at
Offutt Air Force Base on Tuesday - KMTV
To give us the ability to have the
liberty that we all enjoy today,” said Fern Sumpter
Winbush, principal deputy director for Defense
POW and MIA ...
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Offutt Air Force Base lab
helps to identify remains of fallen service members - WOWT
Offutt's Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency, or DPAA Laboratory is one of only
two labs in the country. The other is located in
Hawaii, ...
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Flag-draped coffins of
World War II service members arrive at Offutt - Omaha World
Herald
Forensic anthropologists from the
Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency lab
at Offutt will work to identify them. “They are all
recoveries of either ...
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Navy Lt. Wayne Goodermote was
never forgotten as Vietnam War POW - Times Union
... Navy aviator, who spent nearly six years
as a POW in the Hanoi Hilton. ... recounting how
seeing people wearing bracelets for Goodermote
was ...
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From: DPAA NCR OC
Mailbox Public Affairs <dpaa.ncr.oc.mbx.public-affairs@mail.mil>
Sent: 28 March, 2023 10:41
To: Undisclosed recipients:
Subject: DPAA News Release - California Soldier Accounted For
From Korea
Greetings,
Cpl. Carrillo was accounted for in February, but his family only recently received their full briefing on his identification, which is why this release is going out now.
March 28, 2023
WASHINGTON—The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that Army Cpl. Carmen Carrillo, 20, of Lompoc, California, killed during the Korean War, was accounted for Feb. 3, 2023.
In spring 1951, Carrillo was a member of Headquarters Company, 1st Battalion, 38th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Infantry Division. He was reported missing in action on May 17 after fighting against the Chinese People’s Volunteer Forces in Gangwon Hongchun, Republic of Korea (R.O.K). There is no indication his remains were recovered after the battle and he was never recorded as a prisoner of war. The Army issued a presumptive finding of death on Dec. 31, 1953, and his remains were determined to be nonrecoverable in January 1956.
In 2013 the Ministry of National Defense Agency for Killed in Action Recovery and Identification recovered multiple sets of remains near Gangwon Hongchun, R.O.K., which is consistent with the area associated with Carrillo. Six sets of remains were transferred to the United States, believed to belong to U.S. Service Members.
The remains were disinterred on Sept. 22, 2021 and transferred to the DPAA Laboratory at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii for analysis.
To identify Carrillo’s remains, scientists from DPAA used dental and anthropological analysis. Additionally, scientists from the Armed Forces Medical Examiner System used mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) analysis.
Carrillo’s name is recorded on the American Battle Monuments Commission’s Courts of the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in Honolulu, along with the others who are still missing from the Korean War. A rosette will be placed next to his name to indicate he has been accounted for.
Carrillo will be buried in his hometown on a date yet to be determined.
For family and funeral information, contact the Army Casualty Office at (800) 892-2490.
To see the most up-to-date statistics on DPAA recovery efforts for those unaccounted for from the Korean War, go to the Korean War fact sheet on the DPAA website at: https://www.dpaa.mil/Resources/Fact-Sheets/Article-View/Article/569610/progress-on-korean-war-personnel-accounting/
For additional information on the Defense Department’s mission to account for Americans who went missing while serving our country, visit the DPAA website at www.dpaa.mil, or find us on social media at www.facebook.com/dodpaa or https://www.linkedin.com/company/defense-pow-mia-accounting-agency.
Carrillo’s personnel profile can be viewed at: https://dpaa-mil.sites.crmforce.mil/dpaaProfile?id=a0Jt00000004p3tEAA.
From: DPAA NCR OC
Mailbox Public Affairs <dpaa.ncr.oc.mbx.public-affairs@mail.mil>
Sent: 28 March, 2023 08:58
To: Undisclosed recipients:
Subject: DPAA News Release - California Soldier Accounted For
From WWII
Greetings,
Pvt. Slenker was accounted for in February, but his family only recently received their full briefing on his identification, which is why this release is going out now.
March 28, 2023
WASHINGTON—The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Army Pvt. Leroy M. Slenker, 28, of El Segundo, California, who was captured and died as a prisoner of war during World War II, was accounted for Feb. 3, 2023.
In late 1941, Slenker was a member of the 75th Ordnance Depot Company, when Japanese forces invaded the Philippine Islands in December. Intense fighting continued until the surrender of the Bataan peninsula on April 9, 1942, and of Corregidor Island on May 6, 1942.
Thousands of U.S. and Filipino service members were captured and interned at POW camps. Slenker was among those reported captured when U.S. forces in Bataan surrendered to the Japanese. They were subjected to the 65-mile Bataan Death March and then held at the Cabanatuan POW camp. More than 2,500 POWs perished in this camp during the war.
According to prison camp and other historical records, Slenker died Nov. 15, 1942, and was buried along with other deceased prisoners in the local Cabanatuan Camp Cemetery in Common Grave 721.
Following the war, American Graves Registration Service (AGRS) personnel exhumed those buried at the Cabanatuan cemetery and relocated the remains to a temporary U.S. military mausoleum near Manila. In 1947, the AGRS examined the remains in an attempt to identify them. Six sets of remains from Common Grave 721 were identified, but the rest were declared unidentifiable. The unidentified remains were buried at the Manila American Cemetery and Memorial (MACM) as Unknowns.
In June 2018, the remains associated with Common Grave 721 were disinterred and sent to the DPAA laboratory at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii, for analysis.
To identify Slenker’s remains, scientists from DPAA used anthropological and dental analysis. Additionally, scientists from the Armed Forces Medical Examiner System used mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA).
Although interred as an Unknown in MACM, Slenker’s grave was meticulously cared for over the past 70 years by the American Battle Monuments Commission (ABMC).
Slenker will be buried in Dixon, California on a date yet to be determined.
For family and funeral information, contact the Army Casualty Office at (800) 892-2490.
From: DPAA NCR OC
Mailbox Public Affairs <dpaa.ncr.oc.mbx.public-affairs@mail.mil>
Sent: 27 March, 2023 10:26
To: Undisclosed recipients:
Subject: DPAA News Release - Florida Airman Accounted For From
WWII
Greetings,
Staff Sgt. Mills was accounted for in February, but his family only recently received their full briefing on his identification, which is why this release is going out now.
March 27, 2023
WASHINGTON—The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Army Air Forces Staff Sgt. Edgar L. Mills, 25, of Tampa, Florida, killed during World War II, was accounted for Feb. 13, 2023.
In the summer of 1944, Mills was assigned to the 816th Bomber Squadron (Heavy), 483rd Bomber Group (Heavy), 15th Air Force. On July 18, Mills an armorer gunner, onboard a B-17G was killed in action when the bomber was shot down during a bombing raid on enemy aircraft and air defense installations around Memmingen, Germany. His body was not recovered, and the Germans never reported him as a prisoner of war. The War Department issued a finding of death on July 26, 1951.
Due to the damage to the B-17G the pilot ordered the crew to bail out. Six of the airmen parachuted successfully while the other five crew members including Mills were believed to still be on board. The surviving crew witnessed the aircraft explode in an area south of Memmingen, Germany.
Beginning in 1946, the American Graves Registration Command (AGRC), Army Quartermaster Corps, was the organization tasked with recovering missing American personnel in the European Theater. In 1946, AGRC investigators searched the area of the crash site, they discovered two sets of remains however none were associated with Mills. He was declared non-recoverable July 26, 1951.
In 2012 three German witnesses led what is now known as DPAA to an aircraft crash site near Kimratshofen, Germany. Which resulted in subsequent investigation and recovery efforts in 2013, with a 2018 recovery mission finding possible human remains and material evidence.
In 2019, a DPAA partner team from the University of New Orleans continued work at the Kimratshofen site, recovering additional material, which was also transferred to the DPAA laboratory in Offutt Air Force Base, Nebraska.
To identify Mills’ remains, scientists from DPAA used dental and anthropological analysis. Additionally, scientists from the Armed Forces Medical Examiner System used mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA), analysis.
Mills’ name is recorded on the Walls of the Missing at the Epinal American Cemetery, an American Battle Monuments Commission site in Epinal, France, along with others still missing from WWII. A rosette will be placed next to his name to indicate he has been accounted for.
Mills’ will be buried at Arlington National Cemetery on a date yet to be determined.
For family and funeral information, contact the Army Casualty Office at (800) 892-2490.
For additional information on the Defense Department’s mission to account for Americans who went missing while serving our country, visit the DPAA website at www.dpaa.mil or find us on social media at www.facebook.com/dodpaa or https://www.linkedin.com/company/defense-pow-mia-accounting-agency.
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Travis AFB commemorates
Operation Homecoming 50th anniversary > Travis Air Force ...
... attended by former POWs, Vietnam
veterans and members of Team Travis. ... the Vietnam War
and hear from the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency.
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Navy Lt. Wayne Goodermote was never
forgotten as Vietnam War POW - Times Union
... Navy aviator, who spent nearly six years as a
POW in the Hanoi Hilton. ... recounting how seeing people
wearing bracelets for Goodermote was ...
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The Tragic, Conflicting and Now Politicized Tale of a US Sailor Sitting in a Japanese Prison
Alkonis is far from the only American military employee to face a Japanese legal system that places a high level of responsibility on drivers. In 2012, a court sentenced an Air Force civilian to 18 months in jail over an accident that killed another driver. In 2004, a sailor was sentenced to three years in jail along with hard labor after running a red light and killing another driver. He had been drinking, but his blood alcohol was below the legal limit.From: DPAA NCR OC
Mailbox Public Affairs <dpaa.ncr.oc.mbx.public-affairs@mail.mil>
Sent: 22 March, 2023 11:20
To: Undisclosed recipients:
Subject: DPAA News Release - Iowa Soldier Accounted For From
Korea
Greetings,
Cpl. White was accounted for in September 2022, but his family only recently received their full briefing on his identification, which is why this release is going out now.
March 22, 2023
WASHINGTON—The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Army Cpl. Delbert L. White, 20, of Ottumwa, Iowa, who died as a prisoner of war during the Korean War, was accounted for Sept. 27, 2022.
In late 1950, White was a member of D Company, 2nd Engineer (Combat) Battalion, 2nd Infantry Division. On Dec. 1, White and many other 2nd ID Soldiers were captured by the Chinese People’s Volunteer Forces as they attempted to block the CPVF and allow the rest of 2nd ID to escape south. In August 1953, the CPVF sent a list to United Nations Command stating White died in March 1951 as a prisoner of war at POW Camp #1. However, in September 1953, two returning American POWs said he died in February 1951 at POW Camp #5. Despite conflicting reports, the Army determined March 18, 1951 was the latest White could have been alive and declared that his date of death.
During Operation GLORY in the fall of 1954, 550 sets of remains from reported to be from Prisoner of War Camp #5 were returned to United Nations Command. White was among the 38 who could not be identified. Those unidentified remains were buried as Unknowns at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, also known as the Punchbowl, in Honolulu in 1956.
In October 2019, during Phase 2 of DPAA’s Korean War Disinterment Project, X-14794 Operation GLORY was disinterred from the Punchbowl as part of the planned exhumation of Operation GLORY burials originating from Camp #5, and transferred to the DPAA Laboratory at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii, for analysis.
To identify White’s remains, scientists from DPAA used dental and anthropological analysis, as well as chest radiograph comparison and circumstantial evidence. Additionally, scientists from the Armed Forces Medical Examiner System used mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) analysis.
White’s name is recorded on the Courts of the Missing at the Punchbowl, along with the others who are still missing from the Korean War. A rosette will be placed next to his name to indicate he has been accounted for.
White will be buried in Ottumwa, Iowa on date yet to be determined.
For family and funeral information, contact the Army Casualty Office at (800) 892-2490.
To see the most up-to-date statistics on DPAA recovery efforts for those unaccounted for from the Korean War, go to the Korean War Accounting page on the DPAA website at: https://dpaa-mil.sites.crmforce.mil/dpaaFamWebKorean.
For additional information on the Defense Department’s mission to account for Americans who went missing while serving our country, visit the DPAA website at www.dpaa.mil, find us on social media at www.facebook.com/dodpaa or https://www.linkedin.com/company/defense-pow-mia-accounting-agency.
White’s personnel profile can be viewed at https://dpaa-mil.sites.crmforce.mil/dpaaProfile?id=a0Jt00000004mIVEAY.
From: DPAA NCR OC
Mailbox Public Affairs <dpaa.ncr.oc.mbx.public-affairs@mail.mil>
Sent: 22 March, 2023 12:11
To: Undisclosed recipients:
Subject: DPAA News Release - New York Soldier Accounted For From
WWII
Greetings,
2nd LT Montemurro was accounted for in August 2022, but his family only recently received their full briefing on his identification, which is why this release is going out now.
March 22, 2023
WASHINGTON—The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Army Air Forces 2nd Lt. Francis V. Montemurro, 25, of New York City, New York, killed during World War II, was accounted for Aug. 26, 2022.
In the summer of 1943, Montemurro was assigned to the 345th Bombardment Squadron, 98th Bombardment Group, 9th Air Force. On Aug. 1, 1943, the B-24 Liberator bomber on which Montemurro was serving as the navigator was hit by enemy anti-aircraft fire and crashed during Operation TIDAL WAVE, the largest bombing mission against the oil fields and refineries at Ploiesti, north of Bucharest, Romania. His remains were not identified following the war. The remains that could not be identified were buried as Unknowns in the Hero Section of the Civilian and Military Cemetery of Bolovan, Ploiesti, Prahova, Romania.
Following the war, the American Graves Registration Command (AGRC), the organization that searched for and recovered fallen American personnel, disinterred all American remains from the Bolovan Cemetery for identification. The AGRC was unable to identify more than 80 unknowns from Bolovan Cemetery, and those remains were permanently interred at Ardennes American Cemetery and Henri-Chapelle American Cemetery, both in Belgium.
In 2017, DPAA began exhuming unknowns believed to be associated with unaccounted-for airmen from Operation TIDAL WAVE losses. These remains were sent to the DPAA Laboratory at Offutt Air Force Base, Nebraska, for examination and identification.
To identify Montemurro’s remains, scientists from DPAA used dental and anthropological analysis, as well as circumstantial evidence. Additionally, scientists from the Armed Forces Medical Examiner System used mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) and Y chromosome DNA (Y-STR) analysis.
Montemurro’s name is recorded on the Walls of the Missing at the North Africa American Cemetery, an American Battle Monuments Commission site in Tunis, Tunisia, along with others still missing from WWII. A rosette will be placed next to his name to indicate he has been accounted for.
Montemurro will be buried in San Diego, California on June 2, 2023.
For family and funeral information, contact the Army Casualty Office at (800) 892-2490.
DPAA is grateful to the American Battle Monuments Commission and to the U.S. Army Regional Mortuary-Europe/Africa for their partnership in this mission.
For additional information on the Defense Department’s mission to account for Americans who went missing while serving our country, visit the DPAA website at www.dpaa.mil or find us on social media at www.facebook.com/dodpaa or https://www.linkedin.com/company/defense-pow-mia-accounting-agency.
Montemurro’s personnel profile can be viewed at https://dpaa-mil.sites.crmforce.mil/dpaaProfile?id=a0Jt000000cLlneEAC.
From: DPAA NCR OC
Mailbox Public Affairs <dpaa.ncr.oc.mbx.public-affairs@mail.mil>
Sent: 22 March, 2023 12:56
To: Undisclosed recipients:
Subject: DPAA News Release - Pennsylvania Airman Accounted For
From WWII
Greetings
Tech. Sgt. Holoka was accounted for in January, but his family only recently received their full briefing on his identification, which is why this release is going out now.
March 22, 2023
WASHINGTON—The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Army Air Forces Tech. Sgt. John Holoka Jr., 25, of Cresson, Pennsylvania, killed during World War II, was accounted for Jan. 24, 2023.
In the summer of 1944, Holoka was assigned to the 844th Bombardment Squadron, 489th Bombardment Group (Heavy), Eighth Air Force. On June 22, Holoka was an engineer on a B-24H Liberator that was struck by anti-aircraft after a bombing raid on a German airfield in Saint-Cyr-l’École, near Versailles, France.
Despite the damage to the B-24 Liberator, the pilot was able to nurse the aircraft until it was over the English coast, whereupon he ordered his crew to bail out. Seven of the airmen parachuted successfully while the other three crew members, including Holoka, were still on board. Two of the crew witnessed the aircraft crashed into a farm in West Sussex, England.
Beginning in 1946, the American Graves Registration Command (AGRC), Army Quartermaster Corps, was the organization tasked with recovering missing American personnel in the European Theater. In November 1947, AGRC investigators searched the area of the crash site, but they did not discover the remains of any other crewmembers. Holoka was declared non-recoverable May 10, 1950.
A local aviation archaeology group attempted to excavate the crash site in 1974, to search for aircraft parts. A number of U.S. Department of Defense investigation and recovery efforts took place in 2017 and 2019, with a June 2021 recovery mission finding possible human remains and material evidence.
To identify Holoka’s remains, scientists from DPAA used anthropological analysis as well as material evidence. Additionally, scientists from the Armed Forces Medical Examiner System used dental, mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) and Y chromosome (Y-STR) analysis.
Holoka’s name is recorded on the Wall of the Missing at Cambridge American Cemetery, an American Battle Monuments Commission site in Cambridge, United Kingdom, along with others still missing from WWII. A rosette will be placed next to his name to indicate he has been accounted for.
Holoka will be buried in Portage, Pennsylvania on May 1, 2023.
For family and funeral information, contact the Army Casualty Office at (800) 892-2490.
For additional information on the Defense Department’s mission to account for Americans who went missing while serving our country, visit the DPAA website at www.dpaa.mil or find us on social media at www.facebook.com/dodpaa or https://www.linkedin.com/company/defense-pow-mia-accounting-agency.
Holoka’s personnel profile can be viewed at https://dpaa-mil.sites.crmforce.mil/dpaaProfile?id=a0Jt000001Eh8GhEAJ.
From: DPAA NCR OC
Mailbox Public Affairs <dpaa.ncr.oc.mbx.public-affairs@mail.mil>
Sent: 21 March, 2023 09:58
To: Undisclosed recipients:
Subject: DPAA News Release - Rhode Island Soldier Accounted For
From Korea
Greetings,
Sgt. Robidoux was accounted for in January, but his family only recently received their full briefing on his identification, which is why this release is going out now.
March 21, 2023
WASHINGTON—The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Army Sgt. Lawrence J. Robidoux 22, of Cumberland, Rhode Island, who died as a prisoner of war during the Korean War, was accounted for Jan. 24, 2023.
In late 1950, Robidoux was a member of B Company, 1st Battalion, 35th Infantry Regiment, 25th Infantry Division. He was reported missing in action on Nov. 27, 1950, after his unit’s withdrawal from Ipsok in North Korea. In 1953, several POWs returned during Operation Big Switch reported Robidoux had been a prisoner of war and died in May 1951 at Prisoner of War Camp #5.
In the late summer and fall of 1954, during Operation Glory, North Korea returned remains reportedly recovered from Pyoktong, also known as Prisoner of War Camp #5, to the United Nations Command. However, the Central Identification Unit in Kokura, Japan, did not associate any repatriated remains with Robidoux, he was determined non-recoverable in January 1956.
In July 2018, the DPAA proposed a plan to disinter 652 Korean War Unknowns from the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, known as the Punchbowl, in Honolulu. In December 2019, the DPAA disinterred Unknown X-14646, a set of remains returned during Operation Glory, as part of Phase Two of the Korean War Disinterment Plan and sent the remains to the DPAA laboratory at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii, for analysis.
To identify Robidoux’s remains, scientists from DPAA used dental and anthropological analysis. Additionally, scientists from the Armed Forces Medical Examiner System used mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) analysis.
Robidoux’s name is recorded on the American Battle Monuments Commission’s Courts of the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in Honolulu, along with the others who are still missing from the Korean War. A rosette will be placed next to his name to indicate he has been accounted for.
Robidoux will be buried in Arlington National Cemetery on a date yet to be determined.
For family and funeral information, contact the Army Casualty Office at (800) 892-2490.
To see the most up-to-date statistics on DPAA recovery efforts for those unaccounted for from the Korean War, go to the Korean War Accounting page on the DPAA website at: https://dpaa-mil.sites.crmforce.mil/dpaaFamWebKorean.
DPAA is grateful to the American Battle Monuments Commission and the United States Army for their partnership in this mission.
For additional information on the Defense Department’s mission to account for Americans who went missing while serving our country, visit the DPAA website at www.dpaa.mil, or find us on social media at www.facebook.com/dodpaa or https://www.linkedin.com/company/defense-pow-mia-accounting-agency.
Robidoux’s personnel profile can be viewed at https://dpaa-mil.sites.crmforce.mil/dpaaProfile?id=a0Jt000000NKHCyEAP.
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POW MIA
Accounted For | Video | wrex.com
Army Private Myron Williams was
officially accounted for on July 13, 2022 as announced
by the Defense POW MIA Accounting Agency.
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Remains of WWII soldier killed
in Germany identified - Military Times
12, 2023, according to the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency. (Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency). The remains of a soldier killed in
World War II ...
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Remains of WWII soldier killed
in Germany identified - Yahoo News
Defense POW/MIA Accounting
Agency. The remains of a soldier killed in World War II
will be buried in San Diego, California, decades after
his ...
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Missing WWII Soldier from
Dixon, IL Identified | WVIK, Quad Cities NPR
Today, the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency announced it has identified a missing
World War II soldier from Dixon, Illinois.
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Bloomfield soldier memorialized
in Dutch book - Essex News Daily
While studying unresolved American losses
in the Hurtgen area, a historian with the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency determined that one set of ...
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Florida Lawmakers Could Revamp
HOA Flag Rules - Tampafp.com
US and POW Flag Source: Unsplash ... flag
“in a respectful manner” and one POW-MIA
flag or a flag representing various branches of the
military.
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Florida Republicans want to
legalize 'Back the Blue' flags for homeowners with HOAs
Under current law, homeowners can display
one U.S. flag or state of Florida flag “in a respectful
manner” and one POW-MIA flag or a flag ...
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https://nypost.com/2023/03/20/saudis-release-us-citizen-jailed-19-years-for-tweets/
72-year-old Saad Almadi still isn’t allowed to return home to Florida due to a travel ban....
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https://abcnews.go.com/US/american-jeffery-woodke-held-hostage-niger-released/story?id=97986736
| American Jeffery Woodke, who was held hostage
in Niger, has been released - ABC News |
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American killed in Germany in
World War II identified | Borneo Bulletin Online
... in January but his family
was only recently received a full briefing, the Defense
POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced on
Friday.
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Remains of missing Putnam
County soldier located - LimaOhio.com
On March 6 the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced that U.S. Army
Cpl. Clark Ellis Worline was accounted for on Sept.
9, 2022.
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American POWs' names
read aloud for 1st time at Tokyo bombing memorial - The Mainichi
According to POW Research
Network Japan that provided the list of American
POW casualties, while some 400 Japanese prisoners in the
Shibuya prison ...
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Army Pfc William L. "Sonny"
Simon - Madison.com
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency has notified the family that the remains
of Army Pfc William L. Simon of Middleton, killed on Nov.
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A Ford City World War II
pilot's remains were discovered near England. Investigators
later ...
First Lt. William B. Montgomery of
Ford City(Courtesy of The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency). He was told that investigators
had found a ring ...
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Sixty-one years ago on March 16, 1962, Flying Tiger Line
Flight 739 and its crew departed on a secret mission sanctioned by President
John Kennedy, to fly to Vietnam.
However, the reconnaissance mission went missing with no trace of the plane
or its passengers ever found. Onboard were 93 United States Army soldiers
and 11 civilian crewmembers.....
The names of those lost have not yet been added to the Vietnam Veterans
Memorial in Washington D.C. Presently, the only monument that bears their
names was erected by a private citizen, Wreaths
Across America founder
Morrill Worcester, on his balsam tip land in Columbia Falls, Maine....
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Kansas man killed in
Germany in World War II identified - AP News
Gregory V. Knoll 22, of Hill City.
was identified in January but his family was only
recently received a full briefing, the Defense
POW/MIA Accounting ...
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Kansas man killed in
Germany in World War II identified - ABC News
... was identified in January but his
family was only recently received a full briefing,
the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency
announced Friday.
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Kansas man killed in
Germany in World War II identified - WNYT.com NewsChannel 13
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency announced Friday that it had
identified the remains of 22-year-old Army Sgt.
Gregory Knoll, of Hill City.
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Soldier Accounted For
From World War II (Knoll, G.)
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that
U.S. Army Sgt. Gregory V. Knoll 22, of Hill
City, Kansas, killed during World ...
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Sgt. Knoll, Kansas
veteran killed in WWII, accounted for - KOAM
- U.S. Army Sg. Gregory V. Knoll,
killed during World War II, will be buried on
July 7, 2023. The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency ...
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South Jersey soldier
identified more than 70 years after his death as POW
- Courier Post
Pfc. Harry J. Hartmann Jr., 19,
of Mays Landing, died as a prisoner of war,
according to the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA).
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Kansas soldier's
remains ID'd 79 years later | KSNT 27 News
Picture FromDefense POW/MIA
Accounting ...
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WWII Airman's 'Piloting
Skill' Helped Save 7 from a Crash in 1944, His Remains Have
Now ... - Yahoo
10, 2023, the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency announced on Monday, March 13.
Montgomery's body went missing on June 22,
1944, ...
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Remains Of Fallen
Nutley Veteran Recovered Decades After WWII | Belleville, NJ
Patch
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA) recently announced that
U.S. Navy Aviation Ordnanceman First Class
Anthony Di Petta is officially ...
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Soldier Accounted For
From World War II (McKeon, M.)
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that
Army Tech Sgt. Matthew L. McKeon, 25, of Euclid,
California, killed during World ...
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Remains of WWII pilot
who saved 7 airmen identified after 79 years - KTVQ
Lt. William B. Montgomery, a
24-year-old from Ford City, Pennsylvania, died
in the summer of 1944, according to the Defense
POW/MIA Accounting ...
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Remains of World War II
soldier identified and accounted for - 23ABC News
Bakersfield
According to the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency, Army Tech Sgt. Matthew L.
McKeon, 25, of Euclid was accounted for.
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WWII Airman's 'Piloting
Skill' Helped Save 7 from a Crash in 1944, His Remains Have
Now ...
Lt. William B. Montgomery of the
U.S. Army Air Forces was "accounted for" on Jan.
10, 2023, the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency announced on Monday, ...
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Missing Man and Empty
Chair Ceremony to Honor Phillipsburg's William Konyu and
James Suydam
Rolling Thunder and the Masons
would like to honor Phillipsburg's two POW/MIA's
William Konyu and James Suydam from the Vietnam
War says organizer ...
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Mystery of lost WW2
pilot solved after remains identified 79 years after crash -
AeroTime
Lt Montgomery (front row second
from right), co-pilot John Crowther (front row
right) and engineer, Sgt John Holoka – Credit:
The Defense POW/MIA ...
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He Tried to Kill
Himself 3 Times. Then This Japanese Soldier Surrendered to
the Americans.
He spent the duration of the war
in an American POW camp on Leyte.
Repatriated to Japan at the end of 1945, Ooka
became a writer and worked as a ...
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Forensic Study Sheds
Light on the Remains of Infants, Children | NC State News
Hale is a research scientist at
SNA International working for the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency. The researchers also used
statistical tools ...
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The Arundel Bomber:
Pilot Lieutenant William Montgomery's remains identified ...
- Sussex Express
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced on Monday
that US Army Air Forces 1st Lt William B.
Montgomery, 24, of Ford City, ...
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Airman from Armstrong
County killed in WWII accounted for, will be buried at
Arlington
10, the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA) said in a news release.
In 1944, Montgomery was piloting a B-24H
Liberator that was struck by ...
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WWII soldier's remains
to be buried in Middleton - NBC15
He was officially accounted for
on Nov. 29, 2022, by members of the Defense
POW/MIA Accounting Agency. The
remains of ...
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Remains of Lieutenant
Montgomery who was killed when bomber crashed on English
farm ...
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency said in a statement: 'U.S.
Army Air Forces 1st Lt. William B. Montgomery,
24, of Ford City, Pennsylvania, ...
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Lieutenant Montgomery (left and top right with his crew) had been missing ever since his B-24 Liberator came down on land in West Sussex, in June 1944. Amateur historian Andy Saunders looked into the fate of the bomber in the 1970s and pinpointed the most probable location was a farm in Arundel. But nothing was done about it until 11 years ago when Mr Saunders mentioned his theory of where the wreckage was to a officer with the US Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) at a conference. It prompted the Americans to do their own research, culminating in two excavations in 2019 and 2021 (pictured right) carried out with British historians, where a significant amount of human remains were found which were transported to America for DNA testing and it has now been confirmed the remains belonged to Lt Montgomery. He will be buried with full military honours at the Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia. His great-niece, Tracey Kirchhoff (inset), told Mr Saunders that the family were 'absolutely delighted and very happy that he has been found'.
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Remains of Korean
War soldier, POW, identified - Military Times
... of war have been
positively identified and will be buried in
his home state of Ohio, according to the
Defense POW/MIA Accounting
Agency.
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World War II pilot
from Pennsylvania identified after almost 80 years -
Tioga Publishing
William B. Montgomery, U.S.
Army Air Forces 1st Lt., was killed while
serving active duty in World War II, the
Defense POW/MIA Accounting
Agency ...
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World War II pilot
from Pennsylvania identified after almost 80 years -
Longview News-Journal
NCPA Exclusive Cover Copy
10-1 (16).png. Lt. Montogmery was a member
of the B-24H 42-94B26 "Wolf Pack". Defense
POW/MIA Accounting Agency.
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WWII soldier from
Armstrong County accounted for 8 decades later - WTAE
First Lt. William Montgomery
of Ford City, was just 24 when he died.
Advertisement. The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency says Lt. Montgomery's
plane ...
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World War II pilot
from Pennsylvania identified after almost 80 years -
Standard-Speaker
Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency. Washington, D.C. — The
death of a veteran hailing from Ford City,
Pennsylvania has been confirmed nearly a ...
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Korean War Vet from
Mays Landing, NJ Finally Identified 70 Years After Death
courtesy Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency via NJ.com ... that the
soldier was captured and taken to a POW camp
in Pyoktang, North Korea.
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Remains Of World
War II Pilot Identified After Nearly 80 Years | The
Daily Caller
Despite this, the Defense
POW/MIA Accounting Agency worked
for decades to excavate the site of the
crash, finally managing to investigate the
site ...
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A-10 Demo Team
Introduces New Pilot And Paint Scheme For 2023 Airshow
Season
... accompanied by the
National League of Families POW/MIA
flag. ... the A-10 featured the names of the
unit's PoWs and KIAs and was still
flying ...
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From: DPAA NCR OC
Mailbox Public Affairs <dpaa.ncr.oc.mbx.public-affairs@mail.mil>
Sent: 20 March, 2023 11:41
To: Undisclosed recipients:
Subject: DPAA News Release - Illinois Soldier Accounted For From
WWII
Greetings,
Pvt. Williams was accounted for in July 2022, but his family only recently received their full briefing on his identification, which is why this release is going out now.
March 20, 2023
WASHINGTON—The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that Army Pvt. Myron E. Williams, 29, of Dixon, Illinois, killed during World War II, was accounted for July 13, 2022.
In November 1944, Williams was assigned to Company L, 3rd Battalion, 12th Infantry Regiment, 4th Infantry Division. His unit was engaged in battle with German forces near Hürtgen, Germany, in the Hürtgen Forest, when he was reported missing in action on Nov. 16. His body unable to be recovered, and the Germans never reported him as a prisoner of war. The War Department issued a presumptive finding of death for Williams on Nov. 17, 1945.
Following the end of the war, the American Graves Registration Command was tasked with investigating and recovering missing American personnel in Europe. They conducted several investigations in the Hürtgen area between 1946 and 1950, but were unable to recover or identify Williams’ remains. He was declared non-recoverable in December 1951.
While studying unresolved American losses in the Hürtgen area, a DPAA historian determined that one set of unidentified remains, designated X-5432 Neuville, recovered Germeter and Hürtgen possibly belonged to Williams. The remains, which had been buried in Ardennes American Cemetery, an American Battle Monuments Commission site in Neuville-en-Condroz, Belgium, in 1949, were disinterred in April 2019 and sent to the DPAA laboratory at Offutt Air Force Base, Nebraska, for identification. While analyzing X-5432, DPAA scientists also examined X-5405 Neuville, which had been found only 20 yards from X-5432 in 1947, and discovered comingling between the two.
To identify Williams’ remains, scientists from DPAA used dental and anthropological analysis, as well as circumstantial evidence. Additionally, scientists from the Armed Forces Medical Examiner System used mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) and Y chromosome DNA (Y-STR) analysis.
Williams’ name is recorded on the Walls of the Missing at Netherlands American Cemetery, an American Battle Monuments Commission site in Margraten, Netherlands, along with the others still missing from World War II. A rosette will be placed next to his name to indicate he has been accounted for.
Williams will be buried in Killeen, Texas on a date yet to be determined.
For family and funeral information, contact the Army Casualty Office at (800) 892-2490.
DPAA is grateful to the American Battle Monuments Commission and to the U.S. Army Regional Mortuary-Europe/Africa for their partnership in this mission.
For additional information on the Defense Department’s mission to account for Americans who went missing while serving our country, visit the DPAA website at www.dpaa.mil, find us on social media at www.facebook.com/dodpaa or https://www.linkedin.com/company/defense-pow-mia-accounting-agency.
Williams’ personnel profile can be viewed at https://dpaa-mil.sites.crmforce.mil/dpaaProfile?id=a0Jt0000000Xm7NEAS.
From: DPAA NCR OC
Mailbox Public Affairs <dpaa.ncr.oc.mbx.public-affairs@mail.mil>
Sent: 17 March, 2023 11:48
To: Undisclosed recipients:
Subject: DPAA News Release - Kansas Soldier Accounted For From
WWII
Greetings,
Sgt. Knoll was accounted for in January, but his family only recently received their full briefing on his identification, which is why this release is going out now.
WASHINGTON—The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Army Sgt. Gregory V. Knoll 22, of Hill City, Kansas, killed during World War II, was accounted for Jan. 3, 2023.
In November 1944, Knoll was assigned to Company M, 3rd Battalion, 112th Infantry Regiment, 28th Infantry Division. His battalion had been tasked with capturing the town of Schmidt, Germany, in the Hürtgen Forest. A heavy German counterattack overran his unit and forces survivors to withdraw to Kommerscheidt where they fought against additional enemy attacks. He was reported killed in action on Nov. 7., while fighting enemy forces at Kommerscheidt. His remains could not be recovered after the attack.
Following the end of the war, the American Graves Registration Command was tasked with investigating and recovering missing American personnel in Europe. They conducted several investigations in the Hürtgen area between 1946 and 1950 but were unable to recover or identify Knoll’s remains. He was declared non-recoverable in November 1951.
While studying unresolved American losses in the Hürtgen area, a DPAA historian determined that one set of unidentified remains, designated X-2519 Neuville, recovered at Kommerscheidt in April 1946, possibly belonged to Knoll. The remains, which had been buried in Ardennes American Cemetery, an American Battle Monuments Commission site in Neuville-en-Condroz, Belgium, in 1949, were disinterred in July 2021 and sent to the DPAA laboratory at Offutt Air Force Base, Nebraska, for identification.
To identify Knoll’s remains, scientists from DPAA used anthropological analysis, as well as circumstantial evidence. Additionally, scientists from the Armed Forces Medical Examiner System used mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA), Y chromosome DNA (Y-STR), and autosomal DNA (auSTR) analysis.
Knoll’s name is recorded on the Tablets of the Missing at Henri-Chapelle American Cemetery, an American Battle Monuments Commission site in Plombières, Belgium, along with the others still missing from World War II. A rosette will be placed next to his name to indicate he has been accounted for.
Knoll will be buried on July 7, 2023 in Garden City, Kansas.
For family and funeral information, contact the Army Casualty Office at (800) 892-2490.
DPAA is grateful to the American Battle Monuments Commission and to the U.S. Army Regional Mortuary-Europe/Africa for their partnership in this mission.
For additional information on the Defense Department’s mission to account for Americans who went missing while serving our country, visit the DPAA website at www.dpaa.mil, find us on social media at www.facebook.com/dodpaa or https://www.linkedin.com/company/defense-pow-mia-accounting-agency.
From: DPAA NCR OC
Mailbox Public Affairs <dpaa.ncr.oc.mbx.public-affairs@mail.mil>
Sent: 16 March, 2023 08:42
To: Undisclosed recipients:
Subject: DPAA News Release - California Pilot Accounted For From
WWII
Greetings,
2nd Lt. Minogue was accounted for in in August 2022, but his family only recently received their full briefing on his identification, which is why this release is going out now.
March 16, 2023
WASHINGTON—The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Army Air Forces 2nd Lt. John F. Minogue, 24, of Richfield, California, killed during World War II, was accounted for Aug. 23, 2022.
In the summer of 1943, Minogue was assigned to the 328th Bombardment Squadron (Heavy), 93rd Bombardment Group (Heavy), 9th Air Force. On Aug. 1, 1943, the B-24 Liberator bomber on which Minogue was the co-pilot was hit by enemy anti-aircraft fire and crashed during Operation TIDAL WAVE, the largest bombing mission against the oil fields and refineries at Ploiesti, north of Bucharest, Romania. His remains were not identified following the war. The remains that could not be identified were buried as Unknowns in the Hero Section of the Civilian and Military Cemetery of Bolovan, Ploiesti, Prahova, Romania.
Following the war, the American Graves Registration Command (AGRC), the organization that searched for and recovered fallen American personnel, disinterred all American remains from the Bolovan Cemetery for identification. The AGRC was unable to identify more than 80 unknowns from Bolovan Cemetery, and those remains were permanently interred at Ardennes American Cemetery and Henri-Chapelle American Cemetery, both in Belgium.
In 2017, DPAA began exhuming unknowns believed to be associated with unaccounted-for airmen from Operation TIDAL WAVE losses. These remains were sent to the DPAA Laboratory at Offutt Air Force Base, Nebraska, for examination and identification.
To identify Minogue’s remains, scientists from DPAA used dental and anthropological analysis, as well as circumstantial evidence. Additionally, scientists from the Armed Forces Medical Examiner System used mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) and Y chromosome DNA (Y-STR) analysis.
Minogue’s name is recorded on the Tablets of the Missing at the Florence American Cemetery, an American Battle Monuments Commission site in Impruneta, Italy, along with others still missing from WWII. A rosette will be placed next to his name to indicate he has been accounted for.
Minogue will be buried in Fullerton, California on April 20, 2023.
For family and funeral information, contact the Army Casualty Office at (800) 892-2490.
DPAA is grateful to the American Battle Monuments Commission and to the U.S. Army Regional Mortuary-Europe/Africa for their partnership in this mission.
For additional information on the Defense Department’s mission to account for Americans who went missing while serving our country, visit the DPAA website at www.dpaa.mil or find us on social media at www.facebook.com/dodpaa or https://www.linkedin.com/company/defense-pow-mia-accounting-agency.
From: DPAA NCR OC
Mailbox Public Affairs <dpaa.ncr.oc.mbx.public-affairs@mail.mil>
Sent: 16 March, 2023 09:45
To: Undisclosed recipients:
Subject: DPAA News Release - California Soldier Accounted For
From WWII
Greetings,
Tech Sgt. McKeon was accounted for in January, but his family only recently received their full briefing on his identification, which is why this release is going out now.
March 16, 2023
WASHINGTON—The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that Army Tech Sgt. Matthew L. McKeon, 25, of Euclid, California, killed during World War II, was accounted for Jan. 12, 2023.
In November 1944, McKeon was assigned to Company K, 3rd Battalion, 12th Infantry Regiment, 4th Infantry Division. His unit was engaged in battle with German forces near Hürtgen, Germany, in the Hürtgen Forest, when he was reported killed in action on Nov. 9. His remains could not be recovered during the battle.
Following the end of the war, the American Graves Registration Command was tasked with investigating and recovering missing American personnel in Europe. They conducted several investigations in the Hürtgen area between 1946 and 1950 but were unable to identify McKeon’s remains. He was declared nonrecoverable on Dec. 15, 1950.
While studying unresolved American losses in the Hürtgen area, a DPAA historian determined that one set of unidentified remains, designated X-4458 Neuville, recovered near the town of Hürtgen in 1946 possibly belonged to a service member missing from combat in November 1944, such as McKeon. The remains, which had been buried in Ardennes American Cemetery in 1950, were disinterred in June 2021 and sent to the DPAA laboratory at Offutt Air Force Base, Nebraska, for identification.
To identify McKeon’s remains, scientists from DPAA used dental and anthropological analysis. Additionally, scientists from the Armed Forces Medical Examiner System used mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA), Y chromosome (Y-STR), and autosomal DNA (auSTR) analysis.
McKeon’s name is recorded on the Walls of the Missing at Netherlands American Cemetery, an American Battle Monuments Commission site in Margraten, Netherlands, along with the others still missing from World War II. A rosette will be placed next to his name to indicate he has been accounted for.
McKeon will be buried in San Diego, California on date yet to be determined.
For family and funeral information, contact the Army Casualty Office at (800) 892-2490.
DPAA is grateful to the American Battle Monuments Commission and to the U.S. Army Regional Mortuary-Europe/Africa for their partnership in this mission.
For additional information on the Defense Department’s mission to account for Americans who went missing while serving our country, visit the DPAA website at www.dpaa.mil, find us on social media at www.facebook.com/dodpaa or https://www.linkedin.com/company/defense-pow-mia-accounting-agency.
From: DPAA NCR OC
Mailbox Public Affairs <dpaa.ncr.oc.mbx.public-affairs@mail.mil>
Sent: 13 March, 2023 10:19
To: Undisclosed recipients:
Subject: DPAA News Release - USS Oklahoma Sailor From Ohio
Accounted For From WWII
Greetings,
CMM Derrington was accounted for in March 2021, but his family only recently received their full briefing on his identification, which is why this release is going out now.
March 13, 2023
WASHINGTON—The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that Navy Chief Machinist’s Mate Ralph A. Derrington, 42, of Columbus, Ohio, killed during World War II, was accounted for on March 25, 2021.
On Dec. 7, 1941, Derrington was assigned to the battleship USS Oklahoma, which was moored at Ford Island, Pearl Harbor, when the ship was attacked by Japanese aircraft. The USS Oklahoma sustained multiple torpedo hits, which caused it to quickly capsize. The attack on the ship resulted in the deaths of 429 crewmen, including Derrington.
From December 1941 to June 1944, Navy personnel recovered the remains of the deceased crew, which were subsequently interred in the Halawa and Nu’uanu Cemeteries.
In September 1947, tasked with recovering and identifying fallen U.S. personnel in the Pacific Theater, members of the American Graves Registration Service (AGRS) disinterred the remains of U.S. casualties from the two cemeteries and transferred them to the Central Identification Laboratory at Schofield Barracks. The laboratory staff was only able to confirm the identifications of 35 men from the USS Oklahoma at that time. The AGRS subsequently buried the unidentified remains in 46 plots at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific (NMCP), known as the Punchbowl, in Honolulu. In October 1949, a military board classified those who could not be identified as non-recoverable, including Derrington.
Between June and November 2015, DPAA personnel exhumed the USS Oklahoma Unknowns from the Punchbowl for analysis.
To identify Derrington’s remains, scientists from DPAA used dental and anthropological analysis. Additionally, scientists from the Armed Forces Medical Examiner System used mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) and Y chromosome DNA (Y-STR) analysis.
Derrington’s name is recorded on the Walls of the Missing at the Punchbowl, along with the others who are missing from WWII. A rosette will be placed next to his name to indicate he has been accounted for.
Derrington will be buried on June 20, 2023, at National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific.
For family and funeral information, contact the Navy Service Casualty office at (800) 443-9298.
DPAA is grateful to the Department of Veterans Affairs and the Department of the Navy for their partnership in this mission.
For additional information on the Defense Department’s mission to account for Americans who went missing while serving our country, visit the DPAA website at www.dpaa.mil, find us on social media at www.facebook.com/dodpaa or https://www.linkedin.com/company/defense-pow-mia-accounting-agency.
Derrington’s personnel profile can be viewed at https://dpaa-mil.sites.crmforce.mil/dpaaProfile?id=a0Jt0000000XeL2EAK.
From: DPAA NCR OC
Mailbox Public Affairs <dpaa.ncr.oc.mbx.public-affairs@mail.mil>
Sent: 13 March, 2023 12:23
To: Undisclosed recipients:
Subject: DPAA News Release - New Jersey Soldier Accounted For
From Korea
Greetings,
Pfc. Hartmann was accounted for in July 2022, but his family only recently received their full briefing on his identification, which is why this release is going out now.
March 13, 2023
WASHINGTON—The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Army Pfc. Harry J. Hartmann, Jr., 19, of Mays Landing, New Jersey, who died as a prisoner of war during the Korean War, was accounted for July 13, 2022.
In the fall of 1950, Hartmann was a member of E Company, 2nd Battalion, 8th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Cavalry Division. He was reported missing in action on Nov. 2 during fighting near Unsan, North Korea. Repatriated POWs reported he had been captured and held as a prisoner of war at Camp #5, Pyoktang, North Korea, where he died on or around March 31, 1951.
During Operation GLORY in the fall of 1954, 495 sets of remains from burial grounds around Camp #5 were returned to United Nations Command. All but 38 were identified. Those remains were buried as Unknowns at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, also known as the Punchbowl, in Honolulu, Hawaii, in 1956.
In September 2019, during Phase 2 of DPAA’s Korean War Disinterment Project, X-14617 Operation GLORY was disinterred from the Punchbowl as part of the planned exhumation of Operation GLORY burials originating from Camp #5, and transferred to the DPAA Laboratory at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii for analysis.
To identify Hartmann’s remains, scientists from DPAA used dental and anthropological analysis, as well as circumstantial evidence. Additionally, scientists from the Armed Forces Medical Examiner System used mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) analysis.
Hartmann’s name is recorded on the Courts of the Missing at the Punchbowl, along with the others who are still missing from the Korean War. A rosette will be placed next to his name to indicate he has been accounted for.
Hartmann will be buried in Mays Landing, New Jersey on a date yet to be determined.
For family and funeral information, contact the Army Casualty Office at (800) 892-2490.
To see the most up-to-date statistics on DPAA recovery efforts for those unaccounted for from the Korean War, go to the Korean War fact sheet on the DPAA website at: https://www.dpaa.mil/Resources/Fact-Sheets/Article-View/Article/569610/progress-on-korean-war-personnel-accounting/.
For additional information on the Defense Department’s mission to account for Americans who went missing while serving our country, visit the DPAA website at www.dpaa.mil, find us on social media at www.facebook.com/dodpaa or https://www.linkedin.com/company/defense-pow-mia-accounting-agency.
Hartmann’s personnel profile can be viewed at https://dpaa-mil.sites.crmforce.mil/dpaaProfile?id=a0Jt00000004m52EAA.
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Pilot Accounted For
From World War II (Montgomery, W.)
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today
that U.S. Army Air Forces 1st Lt. William B.
Montgomery, 24, of Ford City, ...
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Sailor Accounted
For From World War II (Mitts, W.)
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today
that U.S. Navy Aviation Radioman First Class
Wilbur A. Mitts, 24, killed during World ...
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Remains of three
American service members killed in WWII identified - Air
Force Times
The remains of two soldiers
and an airman killed in World War II have
been identified, according to the Defense
POW/MIA Accounting Agency.
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Pilot killed in
1944 WWII bombing raid identified decades later as
lieutenant from Pennsylvania
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA), which investigates
and recovers American military personnel
from past wars and conflicts, ...
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Pennsylvania World
War II pilot accounted for nearly 80 years later - ABC27
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency says U.S. Army Air Forces
1st Lt. William B. Montgomery,
24, of Ford City was accounted for on Jan.
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Fallen Korean War
veteran identified more than 70 years after his death -
NJ.com
Korean War veteran Harry J.
HartmannDefense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency ... POWs reported he had
been captured and held as a prisoner of war
at Camp ...
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Remains of
Pennsylvania airman lost during World War II identified
after nearly 80 years
... on a bombing raid in
World War II have been accounted for after
almost 80 years, the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency announced Monday.
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WWII sailor from
Columbus to be buried this summer | WSYX - ABC 6
... Chief Machinist's Mate
Ralph A. Derrington of Columbus was killed
on a ship during World War II. (Image:
Defense POW/MIA Accounting
Agency).
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Ohio veteran
accounted for following death at Pearl Harbor - WRGT
OHIO (WKEF) -- The Defense
POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA)
announced on Monday that Navy Chief
Machinist's Mate Ralph A. Derrington,
42, ...
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Missing for 78+
years, Nutley Navyman's remains accounted for and will
be returned home
The Defense Department POW/MIA
Accounting Agency announced the remains of
U.S. Navy Aviation Ordnanceman First Class
Anthony DiPetta, ...
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From: DPAA NCR OC
Mailbox Public Affairs <dpaa.ncr.oc.mbx.public-affairs@mail.mil>
Sent: 10 March, 2023 11:04
To: Undisclosed recipients:
Subject: DPAA News Release - New Jersey Sailor Accounted For From
WWII
Greetings,
AOM1c Di Petta was accounted for in January, but his family only recently received their full briefing on his identification, which is why this release is going out now.
March 10, 2023
WASHINGTON—The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Navy Aviation Ordnanceman First Class Anthony Di Petta, 24, of Nutley, New Jersey, killed during World War II, was accounted for Jan. 3, 2023.
In the fall of 1944, Di Petta was the Aviation Ordnanceman assigned to the Navy Torpedo Squadron 20, USS Enterprise. On Sept. 10, Di Petta and two other crew members abroad the TBM-1C Avenger Bureau Number, 17018 took off from the USS Enterprise on a mission to conduct air strikes against enemy targets in Malakal Naval District, Palau Islands. Their aircraft was struck by enemy anti-aircraft fire and crashed into water near Malakal. Efforts to recover Di Petta’s remains were unsuccessful.
Following the war, the American Graves Registration Service, the organization that searched for and recovered fallen American personnel, conducted exhaustive searches of battle areas and crash sites in Palau, concluding their search in the summer of 1947. Investigators could not find any evidence of Di Petta or his aircraft. He was declared non-recoverable July 16, 1949.
From 2003 – 2018, the BentProp Project now known as Project Recover, and the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) conducted six investigations resulted in the location of a site associated with the incident.
In May 2019, Ships of Exploration and Discovery Research, a DPAA partner organization excavated the site and recovered remains and material evidence.
In Sept. 2021, a subsequent excavation was completed by Project Recover, a nonprofit organization that works to search and recover missing Americans, where additional remains and material evidence were recovered.
Remains and material evidence were sent to the DPAA laboratory at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii, for analysis.
To identify Di Petta’s remains, scientists from DPAA used dental analysis. Additionally, scientists from the Armed Forces Medical Examiner System used mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) analysis.
Di Petta’s name is recorded on the Walls of the Missing at the Manila American Cemetery and Memorial, an American Battle Monuments Commission site in the Philippines, along with others still missing from WWII. A rosette will be placed next to his name to indicate he has been accounted for.
Di Petta’s burial date and location is yet to be determined.
For family and funeral information, contact the Army Casualty Office at (800) 892-2490.
DPAA is grateful to Project Recover, Ships of Exploration and Discovery Research and to the government of Palau for their assistance in this recovery.
For additional information on the Defense Department’s mission to account for Americans who went missing while serving our country, visit the DPAA website at www.dpaa.mil, find us on social media at www.facebook.com/dodpaa or https://www.linkedin.com/company/defense-pow-mia-accounting-agency.
Di Petta’s personnel profile can be viewed at https://dpaa-mil.sites.crmforce.mil/dpaaProfile?id=a0Jt000001nzYvcEAE.
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Battle of Chosin Reservoir:
Where More Causalities Were Sustained From Frostbite Than Combat
... including ten Marines, two Army
soldiers, and one Navy officer, ... Navy SEAL
Adam Brown provides us with an example of just about
every kind ...
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03/11/2023
https://www.audacy.com/connectingvets/news/massachusetts-museum-gives-firsthand-look-at-hanoi-hilton
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11830845/Trials-fire-hero-WW2-bomber-survived-hundreds-hours-enemy-lines-POW-camp.html
How hero WWII bomber survived two years at notorious Stalag Luft III POW
camp depicted in The Great Escape after
being shot down over Nazi Germany - as CNN correspondent granddaughter
re-issues his memoir
Frank Murphy, left, survived 'trials
by fire on a scale unprecedented in aerial warfare' before being
captured and sent to a POW camp.
The WW2 bomber's harrowing memoir, 'Luck of the Draw', recalls his
time behind enemy lines, which has been brought to life again by
his granddaughter, CNN entertainment correspondent Chloe Melas. For
22 months, Murphy battled freezing conditions, near-starvation
and terrifying ordeals in a POW camp, before his eventual liberation
on April 29, 1945. And over 77 years later, Chloe is retelling the
story, as both a tribute to her heroic grandfather
and a reminder of the harrowing events endured by so
many mere decades ago.
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Detained Americans Fast
Facts - KAKE
For information about missing
Americans, see Robert Levinson Fast Facts or POW/MIA
in Iraq and Afghanistan Fast Facts.
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Names of U.S.
POWs killed in Tokyo air raids read out at event | The Asahi
Shimbun
Then he learned online about
the activities of the POW Research Network, a
civilian organization. The organization has researched World
War II ...
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WWII
pilot's remains return home - Baxter Bulletin
According to a press
release issued by the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA), they described the
circumstances in which Scarborough died ...
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Burying a hero
“Missing in Action” for 70 years | WIBQ The Talk Station
Garrigus received the
“Distinguished Service Cross” for his efforts. “It's the
second highest medal in our country, second only to the
Medal of Honor.
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World War
II airman is identified 80 years after he died in battle; he was
from texas
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounts Agency announced that the previously
unidentified man has finally been confirmed to be US
Army Air Forces Tech Sgt. Frank ...
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Two soldiers killed in Korean
War accounted for - Military Times
Wynn was awarded the Silver
Star Medal for his leadership and bravery on that day.
Army Master Sgt. Merritt L. Wynn, 31, of St. Louis,
Missouri, ...
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World War II airman from
Texas identified 80 years after being killed in action - KTVQ
The Defense POW/MIA
Account Agency announced Wednesday that the
previously unidentified man was confirmed to be U.S.
Army Air Forces Tech Sgt.
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US Airman killed nearly 80
years ago during World War II identified as Texas man, officials
say
Pictured is U.S. Army Air Forces Tech
Sgt. Frank C. Ferrel, of Roby, Texas. (Defense
POW/MIA Accounting ...
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WWII soldier identified 80
years after he was killed in action in eastern Europe - Daily
Mail
The Defense POW/MIA
Account Agency announced that his remains were
'accounted for' on January 10, 2023, after he was
buried in an unmarked grave ...
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Airman Accounted For From
World War II (Ferrel, F.)
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S.
Army Air Forces Tech Sgt. Frank C. Ferrel, 31, of
Roby, Texas, ...
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Texas Airman Accounted For
From WWII - The Gilmer Mirror
WASHINGTON—The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S.
Army Air Forces Tech Sgt. Frank C. Ferrel, 31, of
Roby, Texas, ...
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Mistake-Riddled Korean War Memorial Sparks Congressional Inquiry
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Remains of Middleton
soldier killed in Germany identified after 78 years - WMTV
PFC William Simon was killed during
fighting near Hürtgen, Germany, in 1944(Defense
POW/MIA Accounting Agency). By WBAY news
staff.
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Remains of local soldier
killed in WWII identified, will return home after nearly 80
years
MADISON, Wis. -- After nearly 80
years, the remains of a Wisconsin soldier killed
during World War II are coming home.The Defense
POW/MIA ...
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Two soldiers killed in
Korean War accounted for - Military Times
A 2018 remains return to U.S. and
South Korean scientists by North Korea shows
forensic anthropologists with the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency ...
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Remains of two soldiers
killed in Korean War identified - Army Times
Two soldiers who were killed during
the Korean War have been accounted for, according to
the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency.
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Remains of soldier from
Middleton killed in WWII identified, will return home after
nearly 80 years
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency announced Monday that the remains
of Army Pfc. William L. Simon of Middleton, who was
reported as killed in ...
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Milwaukee man who has been
MIA since World War II accounted for after 78 years -
WAOW
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S.
Army Sgt. Thaddeus S. Matuszak, 31, of Milwaukee,
Wisconsin, killed during ...
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Ohio soldier accounted for
from North Korea, DPAA announces - 13abc
(WTVG) - The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency announced Monday that an Ohio
soldier has been accounted for from Korea. DPAA
announced that U.S. Army ...
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Remains of Korean War
Soldier from Terre Haute to be buried in Greenwood, Indiana
Almost seventy years later, Garrigus'
remains were turned over by North Korea July 27,
2018. He was accounted for by the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting ...
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Middleton man who died in
WWII accounted for after 78 years | News - WKOW
A Middleton man killed during World
War II has been accounted for, according to a
release from the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA).
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In 1975, around 125,000 Vietnamese refugees fled to the United States after South Vietnam fell to the North Vietnamese forces. One of those refugees was U.S. Navy Rear Adm. Huan Nguyen.
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Battleship, bomber crew
members among troops recently ID'd from past conflicts
A POW/MIA flag flies
over Schriever Air Force Base, Colo., Sept. 4, 2014.
Schriever is now a Space Force installation. (Deniis
Rogers/U.S. Air ...
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From: DPAA NCR OC
Mailbox Public Affairs <dpaa.ncr.oc.mbx.public-affairs@mail.mil>
Sent: 8 March, 2023 09:00
To: Undisclosed recipients:
Subject: DPAA News Release - Texas Airman Accounted For From WWII
Greetings,
Tech Sgt. Ferrel ws acounted for in January, but his family only recently received their full briefing on his identification, which is why this release is going out now.
March 8, 2023
WASHINGTON—The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Army Air Forces Tech Sgt. Frank C. Ferrel, 31, of Roby, Texas, killed during World War II, was accounted for Jan. 10, 2023.
In the summer of 1943, Ferrel was assigned to the 328th Bombardment Squadron, 93rd Bombardment Group, 9th Air Force. On Aug. 1, 1943, the B-24 Liberator bomber Ferrel was an engineer was hit by enemy anti-aircraft fire and crashed during Operation TIDAL WAVE, the largest bombing mission against the oil fields and refineries at Ploiesti, north of Bucharest, Romania. His remains were not identified following the war. The remains that could not be identified were buried as Unknowns in the Hero Section of the Civilian and Military Cemetery of Bolovan, Ploiesti, Prahova, Romania.
Following the war, the American Graves Registration Command (AGRC), the organization that searched for and recovered fallen American personnel, disinterred all American remains from the Bolovan Cemetery for identification. The AGRC was unable to identify more than 80 unknowns from Bolovan Cemetery, and those remains were permanently interred at Ardennes American Cemetery and Henri-Chapelle American Cemetery, both in Belgium.
In 2017, DPAA began exhuming unknowns believed to be associated with unaccounted-for airmen from Operation TIDAL WAVE losses. These remains were sent to the DPAA Laboratory at Offutt Air Force Base, Nebraska, for examination and identification.
To identify Ferrel’s remains, scientists from DPAA used anthropological analysis.. Additionally, scientists from the Armed Forces Medical Examiner System used mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) analysis.
Ferrel’s name is recorded on the Tablets of the Missing at the Florence American Cemetery, an American Battle Monuments Commission site in Impruneta, Italy, along with others still missing from WWII. A rosette will be placed next to his name to indicate he has been accounted for.
Ferrel will be buried in Sylvester, Texas on date yet to be determined.
For family and funeral information, contact the Army Casualty Office at (800) 892-2490.
DPAA is grateful to the American Battle Monuments Commission and to the U.S. Army Regional Mortuary-Europe/Africa for their partnership in this mission.
For additional information on the Defense Department’s mission to account for Americans who went missing while serving our country, visit the DPAA website at www.dpaa.mil or find us on social media at www.facebook.com/dodpaa or https://www.linkedin.com/company/defense-pow-mia-accounting-agency.
From: DPAA NCR OC
Mailbox Public Affairs <dpaa.ncr.oc.mbx.public-affairs@mail.mil>
Sent: 6 March, 2023 14:26
To: Undisclosed recipients:
Subject: DPAA News Release - Ohio Soldier Accounted For From
Korea
Greetings,
Cpl. Worline was accounted for in Sept. 2022, but his family only recently received their full briefing on his identification, which is why this release is going out now.
March 6, 2023
WASHINGTON—The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Army Cpl. Clark E. Worline, 20, of Dupont, Ohio who died as a prisoner of war during the Korean War, was accounted for Sept. 9, 2022.
In the fall of 1950, Worline was a member of C Company, 2nd Chemical Mortar Battalion, 8th U.S. Army. He was reported missing in action on Nov. 26 after fighting against the Chinese People’s Volunteer Forces near Sinjang, North Korea. While it is possible Worline was captured, there was no record or eyewitness accounts of him being held as a prisoner of war, though it was not unusual for prisoners who died to be unknown to other captives.
During Operation GLORY in the fall of 1954, 495 sets of remains from burial grounds around Prisoner of War Camp #5 were returned to United Nations Command. All but 38 were identified. Those remains were buried as Unknowns at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, also known as the Punchbowl, in Honolulu in 1956.
In August 2019, during Phase 2 of DPAA’s Korean War Disinterment Project, X-14326 Operation GLORY was disinterred from the Punchbowl as part of the planned exhumation of Operation GLORY burials originating from Camp #5 and transferred to the DPAA Laboratory at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii, for analysis.
To identify Worline’s remains, scientists from DPAA used dental and anthropological analysis, as well as circumstantial evidence. Additionally, scientists from the Armed Forces Medical Examiner System used mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) analysis.
Worline’s name is recorded on the Courts of the Missing at the Punchbowl, along with the others who are still missing from the Korean War. A rosette will be placed next to his name to indicate he has been accounted for.
Worline will be buried in Dupont, Ohio on a date yet to be determined.
For family and funeral information, contact the Army Casualty Office at (800) 892-2490.
To see the most up-to-date statistics on DPAA recovery efforts for those unaccounted for from the Korean War, go to the Korean War Accounting page on the DPAA website at: https://dpaa-mil.sites.crmforce.mil/dpaaFamWebKorean.
For additional information on the Defense Department’s mission to account for Americans who went missing while serving our country, visit the DPAA website at www.dpaa.mil, find us on social media at www.facebook.com/dodpaa or https://www.linkedin.com/company/defense-pow-mia-accounting-agency.
Worline’s personnel profile can be viewed at https://dpaa-mil.sites.crmforce.mil/dpaaProfile?id=a0Jt000000M7EYLEA3.
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| From: | Hal Barker <hbarker@kwp.org> |
| Reply-To: | hbarker@kwp.org |
From: DPAA NCR OC
Mailbox Public Affairs <dpaa.ncr.oc.mbx.public-affairs@mail.mil>
Sent: 6 March, 2023 12:31
To: Undisclosed recipients:
Subject: DPAA News Release - Wisconsin Soldier Accounted For From
WWII
Greetings,
Sgt. Matuszak was accounted for in Sept. 2022, but his family only recently received their full briefing on his identification, which is why this release is going out now.
March 6, 2023
WASHINGTON—The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Army Sgt. Thaddeus S. Matuszak, 31, of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, killed during World War II, was accounted for Sept. 7, 2022.
In September 1944, Matuszak was assigned to Company K, 11th Infantry Regiment, 5th Infantry Division. They were part of Lt. Gen. George S. Patton’s Third Army and had been fighting across France that summer before being stopped by fierce German opposition at the Moselle River near Dornot. On the morning of Sept. 8, Matuszak’s unit was part of a larger force ordered to cross the river and take up a position in the woods on the east side. They dug their defensive positions in a curved line at the edge of the forest they called Horseshoe Woods. The force held their position against a relentless German attack, taking heavy losses, until Sept. 10, when another crossing of the Moselle was made. Only then were they allowed to retreat. That night and into the morning of Sept. 11 most of the Soldiers were able to retreat across the river, though some officers stayed behind to search the woods for the wounded or missing before recrossing the river. Matuszak was among the Soldiers reported missing that night. His body was unable to be recovered because of the fighting and German presence on east side of the river.
The American Graves Registration Command (AGRC) was charged with recovering the remains of fallen service members in the European Theater following the war. Although some unknown remains were found in and around Horseshoe Woods, none were associated with Matuszak. AGRC continued operations along the banks of the Moselle until 1951. At that point, Matuszak was declared non-recoverable.
DPAA historians and archaeologists are conducting ongoing, comprehensive research on Soldiers missing from combat at Horseshoe Woods. During this research, one Unknown, X-75 Limey, was a candidate to match Matuszak. After extensive research and record comparison by DPAA historians and analysts, X-75 was disinterred in September 2018 and sent to the DPAA Laboratory at Offutt Air Force Base, Nebraska, for analysis.
To identify Matuszak’s remains, scientists from DPAA used dental and anthropological analysis, as well as circumstantial evidence. Additionally, scientists from the Armed Forces Medical Examiner System used mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) analysis.
Matuszak’s name is recorded on the Walls of the Missing at the Lorraine American Cemetery, an American Battle Monuments Commission site in St. Avold, France, along with others still missing from WWII. A rosette will be placed next to his name to indicate he has been accounted for.
Matuszak will be buried in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on a date yet to be determined.
For family and funeral information, contact the Army Casualty Office at (800) 892-2490.
DPAA is grateful to the American Battle Monuments Commission and to the U.S. Army Regional Mortuary-Europe/Africa for their partnership in this mission.
For additional information on the Defense Department’s mission to account for Americans who went missing while serving our country, visit the DPAA website at www.dpaa.mil or find us on social media at www.facebook.com/dodpaa or https://www.linkedin.com/company/defense-pow-mia-accounting-agency.
Matuszak’s personnel profile can be viewed at https://dpaa-mil.sites.crmforce.mil/dpaaProfile?id=a0Jt000001edMvuEAE.
From: DPAA NCR OC
Mailbox Public Affairs <dpaa.ncr.oc.mbx.public-affairs@mail.mil>
Sent: 6 March, 2023 13:00
To: Undisclosed recipients:
Subject: DPAA News Release - Wisconsin Soldier Accounted For From
WWII
Greetings,
Pfc. Simon was accounted for in Nov. 2022, but his family only recently received their full briefing on his identification, which is why this release is going out now.
March 6, 2023
WASHINGTON—The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that Army Pfc. William L. Simon, 20, of Middleton, Wisconsin, killed during World War II, was accounted for Nov. 29, 2022.
In November 1944, Simon was assigned to Company G, 2nd Battalion, 109th Infantry Regiment, 28th Infantry Division. His unit was engaged in battle with German forces near Hürtgen, Germany, in the Hürtgen Forest, when he was reported killed in action on Nov. 5. His remains could not be recovered during the battle.
Following the end of the war, the American Graves Registration Command was tasked with investigating and recovering missing American personnel in Europe. They conducted several investigations in the Hürtgen area between 1946 and 1950 but were unable to identify Simons’s remains. He was declared nonrecoverable on Dec. 10, 1950.
While studying unresolved American losses in the
Hürtgen area, a DPAA historian determined that one set of unidentified
remains, designated X-5767 Neuville, recovered in a field south of Hürtgen
in 1946 possibly belonged to Simon. The remains, which had been buried in
Ardennes American Cemetery in 1950, were disinterred in April 2019 and sent
to the DPAA laboratory at Offutt Air Force Base, Nebraska, for
identification.
To identify Simon’s remains, scientists from DPAA used dental and anthropological analysis, as well as circumstantial evidence. Additionally, scientists from the Armed Forces Medical Examiner System used mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) and autosomal DNA (auSTR) analysis.
Simon’s name is recorded on the Walls of the Missing at Netherlands American Cemetery, an American Battle Monuments Commission site in Margarten, Netherlands, along with the others still missing from World War II. A rosette will be placed next to his name to indicate he has been accounted for.
Simon will be buried in Middleton, Wisconsin on a date yet to be determined.
For family and funeral information, contact the Army Casualty Office at (800) 892-2490.
DPAA is grateful to the American Battle Monuments Commission and to the U.S. Army Regional Mortuary-Europe/Africa for their partnership in this mission.
For additional information on the Defense Department’s mission to account for Americans who went missing while serving our country, visit the DPAA website at www.dpaa.mil, find us on social media at www.facebook.com/dodpaa or https://www.linkedin.com/company/defense-pow-mia-accounting-agency.
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POW bracelet
unites Navy veteran and Air Force vet taken during Vietnam Conflict
Years ago, a Navy veteran ordered a
Prisoner of War bracelet that had the name and rank
of a man who was captured during the Vietnam Conflict.
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Bracelet
unites Navy veteran and Air Force veteran taken as POW during
the Vietnam Conflict
Years ago, a Navy veteran ordered a
Prisoner of War bracelet that had the name and rank
of a man who was taken Prisoner of War during the
Vietnam ...
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New Statue Will Pay Tribute to
Vietnam-Era Military Wives Who Took on the US Government
“Their efforts added to the
death of Ho Chi Minh in September of 1969, helped stop the
torture of the POWs, and saved lives.” From left, POW/MIA
wives ...
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Soldier Accounted For From
Korean War (Carrillo, C.)
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that Army
Cpl. Carmen Carrillo, 20, killed during the Korean
War, was accounted for ...
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DPAA provides answers to
family members in Orlando - DVIDS
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA) hosted its second Family
Member Update (FMU) of the fiscal year 2023,
providing families with answers ...
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Florida airman who died in
WWII bombing mission identified nearly 80 years later
1, 1943, while serving as a navigator
aboard a B-24 Liberator during Operation TIDAL WAVE,
the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency
(DPAA) said in a ...
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Remains of Korean War
soldier coming home to St. Louis area - FOX 2
According to the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency, Wynn went missing on Nov. 26,
1950. He fought with the Chinese People's Volunteer
Forces east ...
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How Operation Homecoming
Was Sprung into Action to Repatriate American POWs
The men inside were the first 116
American POWs slated for repatriation. ... chair of
the Defense Department's POW/MIA Task
Force, and 38-year-old ...
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The Number of American
MIA from Every State Since WW2 - 24/7 Wall St.
And in other recent conflicts, within
the last forty years, there remain few personnel
reported as MIA, according to the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting ...
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Florida airman killed in
World War II has remains identified - WPTV
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced Monday that the
remains of U.S. Army Air Forces 2nd Lt. Pharis E.
Weekley of Bradley Junction, ...
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WWII soldier, taken
prisoner in the Philippines, accounted for - Army Times
Honor guardsmen assigned to the
Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA),
render honors during an honorable carry at Joint
Base Pearl ...
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Veterans wait months for
records needed for benefits. What's the holdup at National
Archives?
The Vietnam Veterans Memorial on the
National Mall on National POW/MIA
Recognition Day in. What is a DD214? How long is the
wait for one? The DD214 is ...
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DPAA Scientists attend
conference to share knowledge
Members of the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency Scientific Analysis Directorate
descended on the 75th Anniversary Conference of the
American ...
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Korean War soldier from
Indiana to be buried in Greenwood next month - Fox 59
The Defense POW/MIA
Account Agency (DPAA) identified him in August 2022
after using circumstantial evidence and
anthropological, mitochondrial DNA ...
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Remains of Indiana soldier
killed during Korean War returned, services planned - WRTV
Photo by: Courtesy Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA). Sgt Garrigus.png. Sgt
Garrigus 1.png. By: James Howell Jr. Posted at 9:35
AM, Feb 24, ...
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Remains of Korean War
soldier from Indiana to be buried in Greenwood - WISH-TV
(Provided Photo/U.S. Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency). by: Ashley Fowler. Posted: Feb
24, 2023 / 02:20 PM EST / Updated: Feb 24, 2023 /
02:29 PM ...
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A proper burial, finally,
for a sailor killed at Pearl Harbor - The Washington Post
Schmidt was among those whose remains
were not identified. That might have been the end of
the story, but in 2015 the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting ...
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Korean War vet, formerly
MIA, to be interred March 10 | Local News | tribstar.com
His remains were identified via DNA
testing in 2022 by the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency after being returned by North
Korea in 2018.
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“Founder of the Wall" to
Speak at Veterans Day Ceremony | Latest News | wboc.com
It also contains a UH1 Huey medevac
helicopter and a POW/MIA Chair of
Honor. The public is welcomed and encouraged to
attend each ceremony, ...
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A hero returns: Korean War
veteran to finally receive burial in Greenwood - Daily Journal
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency focuses on accounting for missing
military personnel to the fullest degree possible.
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Never Leave an Airman
Behind - DVIDS
Bibb recently utilized his Danish
language skillset with the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency to bridge language gaps and
overcome communication ...
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Strangers gather in Arlington
to honor a hero - YouTube
'I am the president, he is the
Boss': Obama pays tribute to, jokes with Medal of
Freedom recipients. PBS NewsHour. PBS NewsHour.
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Wyoming Pearl Harbor
casualty finally identified and honored | Jackson Hole Radio
Scott Anderson. -. February 23, 2023.
Wyoming Pearl Harbor Herman Schmidt, Photo Courtesy:
Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency.
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Hundreds Swarm World War II
Navy Gunner's Funeral After Some Worry No One Would Attend
... in DNA technology recently
allowed officials to identify Schmidt's remains,
according to a press release from the Defense POW/MIA
Agency.
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Times-Tribune Throwbacks:
February 9-15 - Maryville Daily Forum
POW bracelets
have been a part of the campaign to bring the plight
of prisoners closer to the thinking of Americans.
Some were obtained as a part ...
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From: DPAA NCR OC Mailbox
Public Affairs <dpaa.ncr.oc.mbx.public-affairs@mail.mil>
Sent: 1 March, 2023 12:57
To: Undisclosed recipients:
Subject: DPAA News Release - Missouri Soldier Accounted For From
Korea
Greetings,
Master Sgt. Wynn was accounted for in August 2022, but his family only recently received their full briefing on his identification, which is why this release is going out now.
March 1, 2023
WASHINGTON—The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Army Master Sgt. Merritt L. Wynn, 31, of St. Louis, Missouri, killed during the Korean War, was accounted for Aug. 26, 2022.
In late 1950, Wynn was a member of K Company, 3rd Battalion, 24th Infantry Regiment, 25th Infantry Division. He was reported missing in action on Nov. 26, while during fighting with the Chinese People’s Volunteer Forces east of Unsan, North Korea. Wynn was awarded the Silver Star for his leadership and bravery that day. Following the battle, his remains could not be recovered, and there is no evidence that he was ever a prisoner of war. Wynn was declared nonrecoverable on Jan. 16, 1956.
On July 27, 2018, following the summit between President Donald Trump and North Korean Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un in June 2018, North Korea turned over 55 boxes, purported to contain the remains of American service members killed during the Korean War. The remains arrived at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii on Aug. 1, 2018, and were subsequently accessioned into the DPAA laboratory for identification.
To identify Wynn’s remains, scientists from DPAA used dental, anthropological, and isotope analysis, as well as circumstantial evidence. Additionally, scientists from the Armed Forces Medical Examiner System used Y chromosome DNA (Y-STR) and autosomal DNA (auSTR) analysis.
Wynn’s name is recorded on the American Battle Monuments Commission’s Courts of the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in Honolulu, along with the others who are still missing from the Korean War. A rosette will be placed next to his name to indicate he has been accounted for.
Wynn will be buried in Centralia, Illinois, on a date yet to be determined.
For family and funeral information, contact the Army Casualty Office at (800) 892-2490.
To see the most up-to-date statistics on DPAA recovery efforts for those unaccounted for from the Korean War, go to the Korean War Accounting page on the DPAA website at: https://dpaa-mil.sites.crmforce.mil/dpaaFamWebKorean.
For additional information on the Defense Department’s mission to account for Americans who went missing while serving our country, visit the DPAA website at www.dpaa.mil, or find us on social media at www.facebook.com/dodpaa or https://www.linkedin.com/company/defense-pow-mia-accounting-agency.
Wynn’s personnel profile can be viewed at https://dpaa-mil.sites.crmforce.mil/dpaaProfile?id=a0Jt000000Ca6uuEAB.
From: DPAA NCR OC
Mailbox Public Affairs <dpaa.ncr.oc.mbx.public-affairs@mail.mil>
Sent: 27 February, 2023 12:01
To: Undisclosed recipients:
Subject: DPAA News Release - Florida Airman Accounted For From
World War II
Greetings,
2nd LT Weekley was accounted for in July 2022, but his family only recently received their full briefing on his identification, which is why this release is going out now.
Feb. 27, 2023
WASHINGTON—The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Army Air Forces 2nd Lt. Pharis E. Weekley, 21, of Bradley Junction, Florida, killed during World War II, was accounted for July 12, 2022.
In the summer of 1943, Weekley was assigned to the 329th Bombardment Squadron (Heavy), 93rd Bombardment Group (Heavy), 9th Air Force. On Aug. 1, 1943, the B-24 Liberator aircraft on which Weekley was serving as the navigator was hit by enemy anti-aircraft fire and crashed during Operation TIDAL WAVE, the largest bombing mission against the oil fields and refineries at Ploiesti, north of Bucharest, Romania. His remains were not identified following the war. The remains that could not be identified were buried as Unknowns in the Hero Section of the Civilian and Military Cemetery of Bolovan, Ploiesti, Prahova, Romania.
Following the war, the American Graves Registration Command (AGRC), the organization that searched for and recovered fallen American personnel, disinterred all American remains from the Bolovan Cemetery for identification. The AGRC was unable to identify more than 80 unknowns from Bolovan Cemetery, and those remains were permanently interred at Ardennes American Cemetery and Henri-Chapelle American Cemetery, both in Belgium.
In 2017, DPAA began exhuming unknowns believed to be associated with unaccounted-for airmen from Operation TIDAL WAVE losses. These remains were sent to the DPAA Laboratory at Offutt Air Force Base, Nebraska, for examination and identification.
To identify Weekley’s remains, scientists from DPAA used anthropological and dental analysis, as well as circumstantial evidence. Additionally, scientists from the Armed Forces Medical Examiner System used mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA), Y chromosome DNA (Y-STR), and autosomal DNA (auSTR) analysis.
Weekley’s name is recorded on the Tablets of the Missing at the Florence American Cemetery, an American Battle Monuments Commission site in Impruneta, Italy, along with others still missing from WWII. A rosette will be placed next to his name to indicate he has been accounted for.
Weekley will be buried in Avon Park, Florida on May 20, 2023.
For family and funeral information, contact the Army Casualty Office at (800) 892-2490.
DPAA is grateful to the American Battle Monuments Commission and to the U.S. Army Regional Mortuary-Europe/Africa for their partnership in this mission.
For additional information on the Defense Department’s mission to account for Americans who went missing while serving our country, visit the DPAA website at www.dpaa.mil or find us on social media at www.facebook.com/dodpaa or https://www.linkedin.com/company/defense-pow-mia-accounting-agency.
Weekley’s personnel profile can be viewed at https://dpaa-mil.sites.crmforce.mil/dpaaProfile?id=a0Jt0000000XeyREAS.
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South Korea transfers remains
to US for Identification - Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency
... Identification (MAKRI) conducted a
repatriation ceremony to transfer remains to the United
Nations Command for analysis in the Defense POW/MIA ...
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ROK TRANSFERS REMAINS TO U.S.
FOR IDENTIFICATION - DVIDS
... ceremony to transfer remains to the
United Nations Command for analysis in the Defense
POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) laboratory.
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South Korea returns remains of
US service member lost in Korean War - Stars and Stripes
A joint forensic analysis in October with
the U.S. Defense POW/MIA Accounting
determined the remains likely belonged to a U.S. service
member.
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A hero's return - Campus
Connection - UW-La Crosse
University of Wisconsin–Madison photo.
Since 2016, the UW MIA Recovery and Identification
Project has been working with the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting ...
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Flags to be flown at half-staff
Thursday to honor Wyoming sailor killed at Pearl Harbor - Local News
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Defense POW/MIA Accounting
Agency (DPAA The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that Navy
Gunner's Mate 3rd Class Herman ...
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Governor Gordon Orders U.S. and
Wyoming flag to be Flown Half-Staff - K2 Radio
Governor Gordon Orders U.S. and Wyoming
flag to be Flown Half-Staff. Herman Schmidt. Courtesy
Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency ...
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'We never forget:' Navy to
bury sailor killed at Pearl Harbor after decades-long identity
quest
Navy · Arlington · Robert Price ·
Pearl Harbor · Michael Schmidt. Herman Schmidt.
Photo courtesy of Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency more >.
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S. Korea repatriates
remains of U.S. soldier killed during Korean War
... a U.S. soldier through joint
analysis with the U.S. Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA). It withheld the identity
of the fallen soldier.
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A hero's return: MIA
Recovery and Identification Project is topic of talk at UW-La
Crosse
Since 2016, the UW MIA Recovery and
Identification Project has been working with the
Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA)
to identify, recover and ...
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Woman received a POW
bracelet, 50 years later she met the man it was for - WATE
The idea of POW bracelets
originated from a student group to honor and
remember American POWs in Vietnam. “I wore it for a
long time through high ...
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Bill Robinson's POW
Bracelet helps make a connect spanning states - YouTube
A simple Google search helped a
Wisconsin woman meet the POW whose
bracelet she received in the 1970s.Stay informed
about what's happening in East ...
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Bernard Talley Obituary (1939 - 2022) - Frisco, TX - Dallas Morning News
We have had Bernard Talleys POW
bracelet since they were first available.
Laurie, my wife, faithfully wore it until his return
from captivity.
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CHA Will Honor And
Celebrate The 50th Anniversary Of The Return Of Vietnam POWs
With Exhibit
However, at this same time, during
the end of the Vietnam War in 1973, families of
Missing in Action (MIA) service members faced
an uncertain future ...
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WWII pilot identified 8
decades later; Central Coast nephew helped with DNA match - KSBY
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency continues its search for missing
personnel from past conflicts (more than 72,000
Americans remain missing ...
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| February 19, 2023 |
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Wreckage of US Navy
submarine from World War II found off Japan's coast - New York
Post
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency reports more than 81,500 Americans
remain missing from major conflicts such as WWII,
the Korean War, ...
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| February 18, 2023 | |
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DPAA reaches 50
identifications for the Hüertgen Forest Project
On December 12, 2022, the Defense
POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA)
announced that Private First Class William L. Simon
had been accounted-for, ...
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DPAA to Discuss Mission,
Science Behind Their Operations at Upcoming Event
That's why DPAA has adopted the
POW/MIA motto as their guiding principle
– You Are Not Forgotten. To read more about Ms.
Sumpter Winbush's ...
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Taking the 'Long Road' to
bring POWs and MIAs home - Putnam Sentinel
It brought the nation's pow/mia
flag back to the forefront for many…as well as
enlightened millions that didn't really know what it
was in the ...
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Wreckage of US Navy
submarine from World War II found off Japan's coast - FOX
Weather
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency reports more than 81,500 Americans
remain missing from major conflicts such as WWII,
the Korean War, the Vietnam ...
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Denver resident searches
for great-uncle who's been missing for the past 78 years - 9News
So that means he's MIA' and so I put
in: Robert Francis Corcoran, ... field investigator
for the Department of POW/MIA
Accounting Agency of DPAA.
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Remains of soldier killed
at Pearl Harbor heading home - Pipestone County Star
According to the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA), hundreds of remains could
not be identified with scientific methods available
at the ...
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Veteran of the Day U.S. Air
Force Veteran James Crew - Aerotech News & Review
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency has placed search efforts for
Crew's remains within the analytical phase of active
pursuit.
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The Day We Saved 2,147 POWs From Los Baños Prison
By February 1945, the cruel and inhumane treatment by the Japanese against their enemies was well known. As the Allies liberated the Philippines, the decision was made to attempt a rescue effort at the Cabanatuan Prison.
This rescue, often referred to as the Great Raid, liberated over 500 prisoners from Cabanatuan on Jan. 30, 1945. These prisoners then described their horrific treatment as well as the atrocities of the Bataan Death March.....
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The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency visits JPRA - DVIDS
By Barb Connors, JPRA Branch Chief On 26
January 2023, William Newell, Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA) Indo-Pacific Directorate
Research ...
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USS Oklahoma Sailor Accounted
For From World War II (Barncord, C.)
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that Navy
Electrician's Mate 3rd Class Cecil E. Barncord, 24,
killed during World War ...
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That's my Dad! DPAA hosts
AMS visit - DVIDS
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA) hosted Nino and her fellow
students during a visit to the headquarters building
on Joint Base Pearl ...
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Over 1500 Servicemen Are
“Missing in Action” 50 Years After the Vietnam War
This operation overlooked bringing
back any American personnel that was either a
Prisoner of War (POW) or Missing in Action (MIA).
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Missing Vietnam War soldier
returns to Ramona for burial after more than 51 years
Army accounts for missing Thomas
Green years after helicopter went down in Vietnam in
1971. (Courtesy Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency).
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After 50 Years Since the
Vietnam War, Over 1500 Servicemen Are Still Missing in Action
The majority of these were POWs, or
so they assumed. The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency currently works to recover the
remains of U.S. military ...
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Adam Schiff slapped with
reality check for divisive rant against California town's 'ban'
on gay flags
... the Huntington Beach City Council
for voting to only fly municipal, state, and federal
flags outside City Hall, along with the POW/MIA
flag.
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https://www.military.com/daily-news/2023/02/13/56-year-promise-broken-war-widow-finds-wrong-man-buried-her-cemetery-plot.html?ESRC=eb_230214.nl A 56-Year Promise Broken: War Widow Finds the Wrong Man Buried in Her Cemetery Plot |
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Soldier Accounted For From
World War II (Slenker, L.)
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S.
Army Pvt. Leroy M. Slenker, 28, who was captured and
died as a prisoner of ...
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Airman Accounted For From
World War II (Elliott, R.)
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S.
Army Air Forces Staff Sgt. Robert C. Elliott, 24,
killed during World War ...
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Remains of corporal
captured during WWII in Philippines identified - Air Force Times
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency announced on Feb. 6 that Cpl.
Charles W. Eeds, 23, of Durant, Oklahoma, was
accounted for on Oct. 25, 2022, ...
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50 years ago Vietnam POWs
came home. Their 'second lives' were just as extraordinary.
17, 1973: Cmdr. Robert Shumaker of La
Jolla, a former POW, holds his son ... Sybil Stockdale
began organizing informal gatherings of POW/MIA
wives ...
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Korean war soldier reported
missing in action identified - Army Times
U.S. service members with the Defense
POW/MIA Accounting Agency, or DPAA,
conduct a disinterment ceremony at the National
Memorial Cemetery of the ...
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DPAA, Lao Citizens Build
Relationships Through Soccer - DVIDS
U.S. service members with the Defense
POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) took
to the field to play a soccer game against local
residents in Lao ...
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Korean war soldier reported
missing in action identified - Yahoo News
A soldier who was reported missing in
the Korean War has been accounted for, according to
the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency.
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Remains of Monticello WWII
Navy Seaman Returning to Iowa – Mix 94.7 KMCH
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency says 19-year old Navy Seaman First
Class Donald A. Stott was assigned to the battleship
U.S.S. Oklahoma at ...
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Army Air Forces pilot
identified decades after his death - Military Times
Army Air Forces 1st Lt. George W.
Winger was accounted for Jan. 24, 2023, according to
the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency.
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Body of Iowa sailor killed
at Pearl Harbor is coming home - The Des Moines Register
The ship capsized after being hit by
multiple torpedoes, according to the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency, or DPAA. Only 19 years old at
the ...
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Ohio pilot accounted for
from World War II - The Highland County Press
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced recently that
U.S. Army Air Forces 1st Lt. Carl D. Nesbitt, 23, of
Lima, Ohio, ...
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Agency: Jones County native
identified among Pearl Harbor dead | Tri-state News
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency announced this week that Navy
Seaman 1st Class Donald A. Stott, 19, of Monticello,
was accounted for on March 26 ...
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Remains of Monticello
seaman killed a Pearl Harbor returning home to Iowa
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency says Navy Seaman First Class
Donald A. Stott was assigned to the battleship USS
Oklahoma at Pearl Harbor ...
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Monticello native killed in
attack on Pearl Harbor identified, burial planned - KCRG
Navy Seaman 1st Class Donald A.
Stott, of Monticello, was 19-years-old when he was
killed during World War II.(The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting ...
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Georgia man who died at
Pearl Harbor will be buried at Arlington National Cemetery
Shipfitter 3rd Class John Malcolm
Donald died Dec. 7, 1941, during the attack on Pearl
Harbor. On April 11, 2018, the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting ...
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Decorated GA Sailor Killed
In Pearl Harbor Attack Was From Marietta - Patch
(Photo Provided By Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency). MARIETTA, GA — A Georgia native
who was killed during the December 1941 attack on
Pearl ...
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He Was Captured at
Singapore. His Daughter Found His POW Diary. - HistoryNet
Stan Moore's daughter Jill used her
father's war diary and an audio recording to piece
together his experience at Changi prison camp.
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From:
la.tjroemer@gmail.com
<la.tjroemer@gmail.com>
Sent: Thursday, February 09, 2023 4:04 PM
To:
la.tjroemer@gmail.com
Subject: FW: The ‘Four Chaplains,’ selfless heroes of WWII,
honored on 80th anniversary of their deaths
Just received this from another Marine friend………..Passing on….
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Bomber, battleship crew
members among troops recently identified from past conflicts
A dozen of the identifications
announced in January by the Hawaii-based Defense
POW/MIA Accounting Agency were
associated with WWII, ...
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WWII airman remains
identified - KXII
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency announced that the remains of
a captured World War II airman have been
identified.
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Sailor from Marietta
who died in Pearl Harbor attack identified through DNA
testing - FOX 5 Atlanta
That is until the start of the
USS Oklahoma Project by the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency, or DPAA. The program works
with geneaologists to ...
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Oklahoma Airman's
remains identified 81 years later - KSWO
According to the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency, or DPAA, 23 year old Corporal
Charles Eeds of the U.S. Army Air Force, was
captured and died ...
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Georgia sailor who died
in Pearl Harbor attack identified through DNA testing -
Yahoo News
... Project by the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency has worked with genealogists
to track down relatives of those killed on the
USS Oklahoma.
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Oklahoma soldier killed
during World War II identified - KFOR
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency announced on Monday that U.S.
Army Air Force Cpl. ... More than 2,500 POWs
died in the camp during the war.
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Remains of Georgia
sailor killed during Pearl Harbor attack to be buried in
Arlington
Credit: Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency. Navy Shopfitter 3rd Class
John M. Donald, 28, of Ball Ground, Ga.,
perished on the USS Oklahoma at ...
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Pearl Harbor Sailor
from Sheridan to be Buried in Arlington National Cemetery |
Wyoming
Between June and November 2015,
Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency
exhumed the USS Oklahoma Unknowns dental and
anthropological analysis, including ...
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Horsford Named to Armed
Services Committee for the 118th Congress
... military education, dependent
schools, POW/MIA issues, Morale,
Welfare and Recreation, commissaries, cemeteries
under the jurisdiction of the ...
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From: DPAA NCR OC
Mailbox Public Affairs <dpaa.ncr.oc.mbx.public-affairs@mail.mil>
Sent: 8 February, 2023 11:53
To: Undisclosed recipients:
Subject: DPAA News Release - USS Oklahoma Sailor From Iowa
Accounted For From WWII
Greetings,
Sea1 Stott was accounted for in March 2021, but his family only recently received their full briefing on his identification, which is why this release is going out now.
Feb. 8, 2023
WASHINGTON—The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that Navy Seaman 1st Class Donald A. Stott, 19, of Monticello, Iowa, killed during World War II, was accounted for on March 26, 2021.
On Dec. 7, 1941, Stott was assigned to the battleship USS Oklahoma, which was moored at Ford Island, Pearl Harbor, when the ship was attacked by Japanese aircraft. The USS Oklahoma sustained multiple torpedo hits, which caused it to quickly capsize. The attack on the ship resulted in the deaths of 429 crewmen, including Stott.
From December 1941 to June 1944, Navy personnel recovered the remains of the deceased crew, which were subsequently interred in the Halawa and Nu’uanu Cemeteries.
In September 1947, tasked with recovering and identifying fallen U.S. personnel in the Pacific Theater, members of the American Graves Registration Service (AGRS) disinterred the remains of U.S. casualties from the two cemeteries and transferred them to the Central Identification Laboratory at Schofield Barracks. The laboratory staff was only able to confirm the identifications of 35 men from the USS Oklahoma at that time. The AGRS subsequently buried the unidentified remains in 46 plots at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific (NMCP), known as the Punchbowl, in Honolulu. In October 1949, a military board classified those who could not be identified as non-recoverable, including Stott.
Between June and November 2015, DPAA personnel exhumed the USS Oklahoma Unknowns from the Punchbowl for analysis.
To identify Stott’s remains, scientists from DPAA used dental and anthropological analysis. Additionally, scientists from the Armed Forces Medical Examiner System used mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) analysis.
Stott’s name is recorded on the Walls of the Missing at the Punchbowl, along with the others who are missing from WWII. A rosette will be placed next to his name to indicate he has been accounted for.
Stott will be buried on March 25, 2023, in Monticello, Iowa.
For family and funeral information, contact the Navy Service Casualty office at (800) 443-9298.
DPAA is grateful to the Department of Veterans Affairs and the Department of the Navy for their partnership in this mission.
For additional information on the Defense Department’s mission to account for Americans who went missing while serving our country, visit the DPAA website at www.dpaa.mil, find us on social media at www.facebook.com/dodpaa or https://www.linkedin.com/company/defense-pow-mia-accounting-agency.
Stott’s personnel profile can be viewed at https://dpaa-mil.sites.crmforce.mil/dpaaProfile?id=a0Jt0000000XgDcEAK
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Florida Squadron 189 dedicating
POW/MIA memorial | The American Legion
A new POW/MIA monument,
spearheaded by Sons of The American Legion Squadron 189,
will be unveiled in a Feb. 26 ceremony at Sebastian,
Fla.
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Soldier Accounted For From
Korea (Dupont, D.)
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that Army Cpl.
Donald L. Dupont, 22, killed during the Korean War, was
accounted for ...
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Pilot Accounted For From WW II
(Winger, G)
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Army
Air Forces 1st Lt. George W. Winger, 25, killed during
World War II, ...
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Fulfilling Our Nation's Promise
Airman Accounted For From World War II - The Katy News
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that Army Air
Forces 2nd Lt. Porter M. Pile, 24, of
Harlingen, Texas, killed during ...
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He Was 19 When He Crashed Over
Vietnam. Now He's Coming Home. - HistoryNet
Although the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency accounted for Green in August 2022, it
only publicly announced its finding in January 2023
after ...
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Mariettan killed at Pearl
Harbor to be buried at Arlington National Cemetery - Yahoo News
... in the attack on the base which led
the U.S. to enter World War II on the side of the
Allies, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting
Agency reports.
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Koutz pays visit to West
Point's American Veterans Park | Top Stories | wpnews.com
President raises awareness for POW/MIA
veterans. Ashley Gaughan
reporter@wpnews.com; Feb 2, 2023; 9 hrs ago.
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Idaho Legionnaires continue
to honor memory of two veterans | The American Legion
There, they set up two flagpoles –
one for the U.S. flag, the other for the POW-MIA
flag. The urn containing the cremains of the unknown
veteran ...
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Halifax university's
technology to help U.S. find missing soldiers on Second World
War battlefields
The team from the anthropology
department at the Halifax university has agreed to
work with the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency, ...
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Halifax university's
technology to help U.S. find missing soldiers on ex ... - Yahoo
News Canada
The anthropology department at Saint
Mary's University has agreed to work with the
Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency,
which is responsible for ...
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Bring our heroes home act |
Opinion | postregister.com
According to the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency, more than 81,500
Americans--including 360 ... Some years ago, then-POWMIA
Awareness Corp.
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University of Halifax
technology to help US find missing soldiers on former European
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The team from the University of
Halifax Department of Anthropology has agreed to
collaborate with the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency, ...
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Airman Accounted For From
World War II (Pile, P.)
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that Army
Air Forces 2nd Lt. Porter M. Pile, 24 , of
Harlingen, Texas, killed during ...
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USS Oklahoma Sailor
Accounted For From World War II (Goggin, D.)
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that Navy
Warrant Officer Daryl H. Goggin, 34, of Everett,
Washington killed during ...
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Remains returned by North
Korea in 2018 help identify missing soldier - Yahoo News
Charles Garrigus, of Terra Haute
Indiana, will be buried in Greenwood Indiana on a
date not yet determined, according to a Defense
POW/MIA Accounting ...
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WA sailor who died on USS
Oklahoma at Pearl Harbor accounted for - nbcrightnow.com
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that Navy
Warrant Officer Machinist Daryl H. Goggin, 34, of
Everett, who was killed ...
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More than seven decades
later, Korean War soldier's remains identified - Army Times
... July 5 and no evidence pointed to
his capture or confinement as a prisoner of war,
according to a Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency release.
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From: DPAA NCR OC
Mailbox Public Affairs <dpaa.ncr.oc.mbx.public-affairs@mail.mil>
Sent: 31 January, 2023 10:20
To: Undisclosed recipients:
Subject: DPAA News Release - Texas Airman Accounted For From WWII
Greetings,
2nd Lt. Pile was accounted for in November 2022, but his family only recently received their full briefing on his identification, which is why this release is going out now.
Jan. 31, 2023
WASHINGTON— The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that Army Air Forces 2nd Lt. Porter M. Pile, 24 , of Harlingen, Texas, killed during World War II, was accounted for Nov. 28, 2022.
In September 1944, Pile was assigned to 700th Bombardment Squadron, 445th Bombardment Group, 2d Air Division, 8th Air Force. On Sept. 27, the B-24H Liberator bomber on which he was serving as the navigator was part of a large mission to bomb the industrial city Kassel in northern Hesse, Germany. During the mission the formation of aircraft encountered heavy resistance from enemy ground and air forces, which resulted in the rapid loss of 25 Liberators. Several of the crew aboard Pile’s aircraft were able to bail out, and witnesses who survived did not report seeing him escape the aircraft. Six of the nine crew members were killed. His body was not recovered and the Germans never reported him as a prisoner of war. The War Department issued a finding of death on Sept. 28, 1945.
Following the end of the war, the American Graves Registration Command (AGRC) was tasked with investigating and recovering missing American personnel in Europe. They discovered the Liberator crash site outside of Richelsdorf, Germany. An identification tag for one of the missing crew members was discovered at this site. Two sets of human remains recovered in October 1951 from this excavation were not able to be identified, were designated as X-9070 Liege and X-9071 Liege, and subsequently interred. X-9070 was buried at Luxembourg American Cemetery in Belgium, while X-9071 had been buried in what is now North Africa American Cemetery in Tunis, Tunisia, in the 1950’s. Both cemeteries are registered as American Battle Monuments Commission cemeteries.
DPAA historians are conducting ongoing, comprehensive research focused on air losses over Germany. As a result, they determined X-9070 and X-9071 to be a strong candidate for association with Pile. X-9070 was disinterred in April 2018 and X-9071 was disinterred in September 2022 and sent to the DPAA laboratory at Offutt Air Force Base, Nebraska, for examination and identification.
To identify Pile’s remains, scientists from DPAA used anthropological and dental analysis, as well as circumstantial evidence. Additionally, scientists from the Armed Forces Medical Examiner System used mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) and Y chromosome DNA (Y-STR) analysis.
Pile’s name is recorded on the Wall of the Missing at Cambridge American Cemetery, an American Battle Monuments Commission site in England, along with the others still missing from World War II. A rosette will be placed next to his name to indicate he has been accounted for.
Pile will be buried on a date that has yet to be determined in Arlington National Cemetery.
For family and funeral information, contact the Army Casualty Office at (800) 892-2490.
DPAA is grateful to the American Battle Monuments Commission and to the U.S. Army Regional Mortuary-Europe/Africa for their partnership in this mission.
For additional information on the Defense Department’s mission to account for Americans who went missing while serving our country, visit the DPAA website at www.dpaa.mil, find us on social media at www.facebook.com/dodpaa or https://www.linkedin.com/company/defense-pow-mia-accounting-agency.
Pile’s personnel profile can be viewed https://dpaa-mil.sites.crmforce.mil/dpaaProfile?id=a0Jt0000000LlaAEAS.
From: DPAA NCR OC
Mailbox Public Affairs <dpaa.ncr.oc.mbx.public-affairs@mail.mil>
Sent: 30 January, 2023 12:38
To: Undisclosed recipients:
Subject: DPAA News Release - USS Oklahoma Sailor From Washington
Accounted For From WWII
Greetings,
WO Machinist Goggin was accounted for Oct. 10, 2015, but his family only recently received their full briefing on his identification, which is why this release is going out now.
WASHINGTON—The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that Navy Warrant Officer Machinist Daryl H. Goggin, 34, of Everett, Washington killed during World War II, was accounted for on Oct. 10, 2015.
On Dec. 7, 1941, Goggin was assigned to the battleship USS Oklahoma, which was moored at Ford Island, Pearl Harbor, when the ship was attacked by Japanese aircraft. The USS Oklahoma sustained multiple torpedo hits, which caused it to quickly capsize. The attack on the ship resulted in the deaths of 429 crewmen, including Goggin.
From December 1941 to June 1944, Navy personnel recovered the remains of the deceased crew, which were subsequently interred in the Halawa and Nu’uanu Cemeteries.
In September 1947, tasked with recovering and identifying fallen U.S. personnel in the Pacific Theater, members of the American Graves Registration Service (AGRS) disinterred the remains of U.S. casualties from the two cemeteries and transferred them to the Central Identification Laboratory at Schofield Barracks. The laboratory staff was only able to confirm the identifications of 35 men from the USS Oklahoma at that time. The AGRS subsequently buried the unidentified remains in 46 plots at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific (NMCP), known as the Punchbowl, in Honolulu. In October 1949, a military board classified those who could not be identified as non-recoverable, including Goggin.
Between June and November 2015, DPAA personnel exhumed the USS Oklahoma Unknowns from the Punchbowl for analysis.
To identify Goggin’s remains, scientists from DPAA used dental and anthropological analysis.
Goggin’s name is recorded on the Walls of the Missing at the Punchbowl, along with the others who are missing from WWII. A rosette will be placed next to his name to indicate he has been accounted for.
Goggin will be buried on Aug. 18, 2023 at the Punchbowl.
For family and funeral information, contact the Navy Service Casualty office at (800) 443-9298.
DPAA is grateful to the Department of Veterans Affairs and the Department of the Navy for their partnership in this mission.
For additional information on the Defense Department’s mission to account for Americans who went missing while serving our country, visit the DPAA website at www.dpaa.mil, find us on social media at www.facebook.com/dodpaa or https://www.linkedin.com/company/defense-pow-mia-accounting-agency.
Goggin’s personnel profile can be viewed at https://dpaa-mil.sites.crmforce.mil/dpaaProfile?id=a0Jt000001DKIpeEAH.
| Subject: | House Resolution to bring the USS Pueblo home |
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| Date: | Sun, 29 Jan 2023 22:15:59 -0500 |
| From: | moehog@verizon.net |
| To: | moehog@verizon.net |
House Resolution For USS Pueblo - Search News (bing.com)
Congratulations to Rick Ragola and all the men from the USS Pueblo. 55 years since the N. Korean’s took the crew and ship that was in international water at the time, held the crew as POWs for a year and held the ship ever since. They currently have it on display and actually have the public tour it. Let us pray for political leadership that can/will bring this Resolution to Reality. - moe
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GUEST APPEARANCE: 50 years ago:
Heroes come home | Opinion | fltimes.com
Then, I wore a POW bracelet. Then,
many aircrew members wore POW bracelets and
Missing in Action bracelets. This kept the POWs in our
hearts and ...
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The bracelet that
aligned an Oregon woman with an American hero from Lawrence
By then, Mulligan, a Lawrence native, was
long a prisoner of war in Vietnam. A friend asked
Mower if she'd like to purchase and wear a metal
bracelet ...
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Dover traffic stop leads to
arrest, discovery of loaded handgun - 47abc - WMDT
The trooper saw a 2017 Ford Fusion
with “very dark window tinting” on the front and
rear windows stopped in traffic on POW MIA
Parkway, waiting to ...
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Troopers Arrest Man With a
Stolen Gun - Delaware State Police
... of Dover observed a white 2017
Ford Fusion stopped in traffic on POW MIA
Parkway waiting to turn right onto southbound South
Dupont Highway.
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Local history: Three local
Vietnam POWs said to be returning after cease-fire in war
50 years ago
He went on to give back to his fellow
veterans, including filling various offices
(including state chairman) for local and state
POW-MIA ...
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Government identifies
remains of Glendive soldier who died during Bataan Death March
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency said Wednesday that U.S. Army Cpl.
Franklin H. Bennett was accounted for in August.
Bennett served as a member ...
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At last, a memorial
honoring military spouses - Yahoo News
Lee's exhibition, “The League of
Wives: Vietnam POW MIA Advocates and Allies”
about Vietnam, the wives of prisoners of war and
those missing in ...
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From the Archive: From the
Vietnam Memorial wall to 'The Embrace' - Boston Herald
JULY 18: A woman touches name of
James Rozo, whose POW/MiA bracelet she
has worn since she was12 years old, at The Wall That
Heals, ...
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Bataan Death March POW
remains identified - Military Times
That information was gathered from
prison camp and other historical records, cited in a
Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency
release published Jan.
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Paul Bernard: Remembering Tet
Offensive, 55 years later - Sun Journal
Jay observes POW/MIA
National Recognition Day. Perspective ... POW/MIA
Recognition Day remembered in Farmington, Jay. Latest
Articles. College ...
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Sent: Friday, January 27, 2023
5:28 PM
Subject: 27 JANUARY 1973
ON THIS DATE THE COMMUNISTS TOLD US
A PEACE AGREEMENT HAD BEEN SIGNED IN PARIS AND WE WOULD BE
RELEASED. THIS RELEASE DID TAKE PLACE ON 12 FEBRUARY 1973.
I AM FOREVER GRATEFUL FOR THOSE
BOMBS DROPPING ON MY ENEMY WHICH DID MORE TO BRING ME HOME
THAN ANY FINE WORDS IN PARIS EVER DID.
GOD BLESS AMERICA!!
MARK A. SMITH
MAJOR, USA, RETIRED
RETURNED AMERICAN POW
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Bringing missing servicemen
home - POLITICO
For nearly half a century, Johnie
Webb, the outgoing head of the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Command in Honolulu, has helped thousands
of soldiers' ...
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New evidence declares
soldier POW before death in Korean War - Yahoo News
4, 1954, later declaring his remains
“unrecoverable” in January 1956, according to a
Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency
release.
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Fifty Years On: Remembering
the 1973 Paris Peace Accords > 142nd Wing > Article Display
He and Pat helped interested citizens
to acquire POW/MIA bracelets offered
by a non-profit organization called Voices in Vital
America. Such bracelets ...
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Somerville Elks Honor Green
Beret SSgt. Robert Scherdin (MIA, 1968) - TAPinto
28, with a greeting by Elaine Martin,
POW/MIA chair, Rolling Thunder and an
invocation by Rev. Tim Wolf of the New Horizon
Church in Hillsborough.
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A pile of boxes filled with body bags welcomed visitors to the headquarters of the Ukrainian Women Veteran Movement, Ukraine’s biggest female soldiers’ organization, on a recent afternoon.....
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The family of American businessman Zack Shahin, wrongfully detained in the United Arab Emirates for the last 15 years, are making a last-ditch plea to officials in Washington for his release....
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On 50th
anniversary of Vietnam Treaty, do we still need
POW-MIA flag? - CT Mirror
A way to mark the
anniversary of the end of the Vietnam
War would be to consider if the POW-MIA
flag belongs on the same staff as Old
Glory.
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https://www.military.com/military-life/medal-of-honor-recipients-speech-pentagon-going-viral-tiktok.html?ESRC=eb_230127.nl
A Medal of Honor Recipient's Speech at the Pentagon Is Going
Viral on TikTok
| Subject: | FW: Fw: Vietnam didn't end with treaty. For families of MIA, it never did. |
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| Date: | Fri, 27 Jan 2023 11:40:11 -0500 |
| From: | moehog@verizon.net |
| To: | moehog@verizon.net |
From the desk of Kathleen Shemeley, Connecticut Forget ME Nots.
There are still 81,481 Missing/Unaccounted for US Military personnel today.
From: Kathleen
Shemeley
<pow.mia.ctfmn@gmail.com>
Sent: 25 January, 2023 21:08
To: Kathleen Shemeley
<pow.mia.ctfmn@gmail.com>
Subject: Fwd: Fw: Vietnam didn't end with treaty. For families of
MIA, it never did.
Be sure to read the USA TODAY editorial link by Heather Atherton
which appeared in Saturday, January 21's USA TODAY.
Friday, January 27, 2023 is the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Paris Peace Accord. But not all POWs came home.
Kathy
Vietnam didn't
end with treaty. For families of MIA, it
never did.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/voices/2023/01/21/vietnam-war-paris-peace-accords-remember-baron-52/11021128002/
From: markasauter@gmail.com
<markasauter@gmail.com>
Sent: 27 January, 2023 12:28
To: moehog@verizon.net
Subject: On 50th Anniversary of Paris Peace Accords, Help Find
Evidence on POWs Held Back in SEA
https://www.powinvestigativeproject.org/find-nlhs-bulletin.html
https://www.powinvestigativeproject.org/americans-in-camp-c53.html
https://www.powinvestigativeproject.org/pow-held-by-laotian-colonel.html
https://www.powinvestigativeproject.org/find-cubanpolish-newspaper.html
Mark Sauter
202-701-9515
| LORD ASHCROFT recalls the
forgotten heroine of the Holocaust Daily Mail Online |
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Ex-US Navy SEAL
killed in Ukraine | CNN Politics
An ex-US Navy SEAL, who
deserted the American military nearly four years
ago, was killed fighting in Ukraine, according
to the Navy.
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Navy SEAL
deserter killed in Ukraine, official says - NBC News
Former Navy SEAL Daniel W.
Swift was killed in Ukraine on Wednesday, a Navy
official told NBC News Friday.
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50 years later, peace
treaty that was supposed to end Vietnam War still haunts my
family
12, 1973, with 591 American prisoners
of war (POWs) scheduled to ... accepting the baton
to hold the Defense POW/MIA Accounting
Agency to its ...
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| Subject: | 50 years later, peace treaty that was supposed to end Vietnam War still haunts my family |
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| Date: | Sun, 22 Jan 2023 00:48:37 +0000 |
| From: | John Pagel <tfosoca@msn.com> |
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The
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Remains of B-17 Bombardier,
Killed A Week Before D-Day, Head Home At Last
All became prisoners of war. WWII
bombardier. The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency determined that US Army Air Forces
1st Lt. Melvin ...
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Montana Soldier Accounted For
From WWII | Helena | kulr8.com
WASHINGTON—The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Army
Cpl. Franklin H. Bennett, 20, of Glendive, Montana, ...
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A southeastern Illinois pilot
is accounted for from World War Two - WSIU
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency. World War Two pilot Frederick
Schrader from Lawrenceville. The family of a Lawrence
County World War Two ...
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Glendive WWII soldier accounted
for after 80 years | Local News | sidneyherald.com
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced Friday morning that a
Glendive man who was captured and died as a prisoner of
war during ...
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DPAA announces ID of Korean War
veteran from Terre Haute | MyWabashValley.com
TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (WTWO/WAWV) — The
Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA)
released that a United States Army Sergeant from Terre
Haute that was ...
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Opinion: Reviving the Bring Our
Heroes Home Act | Freeaccess | idahostatejournal.com
According to the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency, more than 81,500 Americans —
including 360 ... Some years ago, then-POWMIA
Awareness Corp.
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From: DPAA NCR OC
Mailbox Public Affairs <dpaa.ncr.oc.mbx.public-affairs@mail.mil>
Sent: 20 January, 2023 13:04
To: Undisclosed recipients:
Subject: DPAA News Release - Indiana Soldier Accounted For From
Korea
Greetings,
Cpl. Garrigus was accounted for in August, but his family only recently received their full briefing on his identification, which is why this release is going out now.
Jan. 20, 2023
WASHINGTON—The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Army Sgt. Charles Garrigus, 24, of Terra Haute, Indiana, killed during the Korean War, was accounted for Aug. 2, 2022.
In late 1950, Garrigus was a member of Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 1st Battalion, 32nd Infantry Regiment, 7th Infantry Division. He was reported missing in action on Dec. 1, during battle with enemy forces near the Chosin Reservoir, North Korea. Following the battle, his remains could not be recovered, and there is no evidence that he was ever a prisoner of war.
On July 27, 2018, following the summit between President Donald Trump and North Korean Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un in June 2018, North Korea turned over 55 boxes, purported to contain the remains of American service members killed during the Korean War. The remains arrived at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii on Aug. 1, 2018, and were subsequently accessioned into the DPAA laboratory for identification.
To identify Garrigus’s remains, scientists from DPAA used anthropological analysis, as well as circumstantial evidence. Additionally, scientists from the Armed Forces Medical Examiner System used mitochondrial DNA (myDNA), Y chromosome DNA (Y-STR), and autosomal DNA (auSTR) analysis.
Garrigus’s name is recorded on the American Battle Monuments Commission’s Courts of the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in Honolulu, along with the others who are still missing from the Korean War. A rosette will be placed next to his name to indicate he has been accounted for.
Garrigus will be buried in Greenwood, Indiana, on date yet to be determined.
For family and funeral information, contact the Army Casualty Office at (800) 892-2490.
To see the most up-to-date statistics on DPAA recovery efforts for those unaccounted for from the Korean War, go to the Korean War fact sheet on the DPAA website at: https://www.dpaa.mil/Resources/Fact-Sheets/Article-View/Article/569610/progress-on-korean-war-personnel-accounting/
For additional information on the Defense Department’s mission to account for Americans who went missing while serving our country, visit the DPAA website at www.dpaa.mil, or find us on social media at www.facebook.com/dodpaa or https://www.linkedin.com/company/defense-pow-mia-accounting-agency.
Garrigus’s personnel profile can be viewed at https://dpaa-mil.sites.crmforce.mil/dpaaProfile?id=a0Jt000000dGc9TEAS.
From:
DPAA NCR OC Mailbox Public Affairs <dpaa.ncr.oc.mbx.public-affairs@mail.mil>
Sent: 20 January, 2023 12:11
To: Undisclosed recipients:
Subject: DPAA News Release - Illinois Pilot Accounted For From
WWII
Greetings,
Cdr. Schrader was accounted for in September, but his family only recently received their full briefing on his identification, which is why this release is going out now.
Jan. 20, 2023
WASHINGTON—The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Navy Cmdr. Frederick R. Schrader, 31, of Lawrenceville, Illinois, killed during World War II, was accounted for on Sept. 27, 2022.
In October 1944, Schrader was the commander of Carrier Air Group Eleven on the USS Hornet. The Hornet was one of 17 aircraft carriers to take part in the Battle of Formosa Oct. 12-15. On Oct. 13, Schrader’s F6F-5 Hellcat fighter was shot down during an attack on Toko Seaplane Base on Formosa, now know as Taiwan. His wingman never saw a parachute or any evidence Schrader was able to exit the aircraft before it crashed. No rescue attempt was possible because the crash happened in enemy territory.
Following the end of the war, the American Graves Registration Service (AGRS) was tasked with investigating and recovering missing American personnel in the Pacific Theater. They searched Formosa for one year, but none of the remains they recovered could be identified as Schrader. He was declared non-recoverable in 1949.
In April 2019, DPAA was contacted by Matthew Robins, an independent researcher and former Naval flight officer. His research pointed to a possible correlation between Schrader and X-136 Schofield, a WWII Unknown recovered from Formosa and buried at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, also known as the Punchbowl, in Honolulu. Further research by DPAA analysts found more evidence linking the two. X-136 was disinterred from the Punchbowl on Aug. 11, 2022, and taken to the DPAA laboratory at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii, for analysis.
To identify Schrader’s remains, scientists from DPAA used dental and anthropological analysis, as well as circumstantial evidence.
Schrader’s name is recorded on the Walls of the Missing at the Manila American Cemetery and Memorial, an American Battle Monuments Commission site in the Philippines, along with the others missing from WWII. A rosette will be placed next to his name to indicate he has been accounted for.
DPAA is grateful to Matthew Robins for his assistance in this mission.
Schrader will be buried April 13, 2023 at the Punchbowl.
For family and funeral information, call the Navy Casualty Office at (800) 443-9298.
For additional information on the Defense Department’s mission to account for Americans who went missing while serving our country, visit the DPAA website at www.dpaa.mil or find us on social media at www.facebook.com/dodpaa or https://www.linkedin.com/company/defense-pow-mia-accounting-agency.
Schrader’s personnel profile can be viewed at https://dpaa-mil.sites.crmforce.mil/dpaaProfile?id=a0Jt000001nzQwCEAU.
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Soldier Accounted For From
Korean War (De Anda, D.)
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Army
Cpl. Daniel De Anda, 22, who died as a prisoner of war
during the ...
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Pilot Accounted For From World
War II (Deeds, J.)
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Army
Air Forces 1st Lt. James A. Deeds, 23, killed during
World War II, ...
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Remains of Army private killed
in WWII battle identified - Military Times
Mark P. Wilson, 20, of Elizabethton,
Tennessee was accounted for on Sept. 12, 2022, according
to a release from the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency.
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| Date: | Fri, 20 Jan 2023 05:41:59 +0000 |
| From: | John Pagel <tfosoca@msn.com> |
AMERICAN JAPANESE SOLDIERS WHO FREED JEWS FROM DACHAU CONCENTRATION CAMP
I have never seen this video before, nor was I aware of this particular piece of history
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Relatives of Veterans Left
Off Korean War Memorial Travel to DC For Protest
Biden Bestows Medal of Honor
on 94-Year-Old Korean War Veteran. Instead, his
death is classified as a "Cold War" loss, because
the plane went down ...
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Korean War wall riddled
with errors, families seek change - NewsNation
“There are three Medal of Honor
recipients and their names are spelled wrong. It's
heartbreaking to our family. they call the Korean
War the ...
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01/19/2023
Trial resumes for David Barnes, American detained in Russia - ABC News |
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Remains of Lost WWII Pilot
Identified - Archaeology Magazine
The crash site was located by the
Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command in
2012, and an excavation was conducted in 2019.
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Remains of missing
Tennessee soldier killed in WWII while holding off Germans found
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA) reports U.S. Army Pfc. Mark
P. Wilson of Elizabethton was reported missing in
Kommerscheidt, ...
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Kentucky soldier accounted
for nearly 70 years after Korean War | WRIC ABC 8News
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced Tuesday that Army
Cpl. Billie Joe Hash, 18, of Corbin, Kentucky,
killed during the Korean ...
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Missing WWII soldier's body
identified, returning to St. Louis area - KSDK
It wasn't until July 2012 that an
investigation team from the Joint POW/MIA
Account Command found the crash site and recovered
evidence of the ...
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Remains of WWII soldier
previously buried in Belgium identified as Elizabethton man
U.S. Army Pfc. Mark P. Wilson was
accounted for on September 12, 2022, according to
the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency
(DPAA).
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Tennessee soldier killed
during WWII identified | Local News - Local3News.com
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S.
Army Pfc. Mark P. Wilson, 20, of Elizabethton,
Tennessee killed during ...
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Elizabethton soldier killed
in WWII accounted for | WJHL | Tri-Cities News & Weather
A release from the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA) states that U.S. Army Pfc.
Mark P. Wilson was accounted for on Sept. 12, 2022.
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Tennessee WWII veteran
killed in Europe identified - WBBJ TV
You can follow the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency and their work here. You can read
more about the fighting that took place in the
Hürtgen ...
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From: DPAA NCR OC
Mailbox Public Affairs <dpaa.ncr.oc.mbx.public-affairs@mail.mil>
Sent: 20 January, 2023 10:42
To: Undisclosed recipients:
Subject: DPAA News Release - Montana Soldier Accounted For From
WWII
Greetings,
Cpl. Bennett was accounted for in August, but his family only recently received their full briefing on his identification, which is why this release is going out now.
Jan. 20, 2023
WASHINGTON—The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Army Cpl. Franklin H. Bennett, 20, of Glendive, Montana, who was captured and died as a prisoner of war during World War II, was accounted for Aug. 24, 2022.
In late 1941, Bennett was a member of the 54th Signal Maintenance Company, when Japanese forces invaded the Philippine Islands in December. Intense fighting continued until the surrender of the Bataan peninsula on April 9, 1942, and of Corregidor Island on May 6, 1942.
Thousands of U.S. and Filipino service members were captured and interned at POW camps. Bennett was among those reported captured when U.S. forces in Bataan surrendered to the Japanese. They were subjected to the 65-mile Bataan Death March and then held at the Cabanatuan POW camp. More than 2,500 POWs perished in this camp during the war.
According to prison camp and other historical records, Bennett died July 19, 1942, and was buried along with other deceased prisoners in the local Cabanatuan Camp Cemetery in Common Grave 312.
Following the war, American Graves Registration Service (AGRS) personnel exhumed those buried at the Cabanatuan cemetery and relocated the remains to a temporary U.S. military mausoleum near Manila. In 1947, the AGRS examined the remains in an attempt to identify them. Twelve sets of remains from Common Grave 312 were identified, but the rest were declared unidentifiable. The unidentified remains were buried at the Manila American Cemetery and Memorial (MACM) as Unknowns.
In early 2018, the remains associated with Common Grave 312 were disinterred and sent to the DPAA laboratory at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii, for analysis.
To identify Bennett’s remains, scientists from DPAA used dental and anthropological analysis, as well as circumstantial evidence. Additionally, scientists from the Armed Forces Medical Examiner System used mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) analysis.
Although interred as an Unknown in MACM, Bennett’s grave was meticulously cared for over the past 70 years by the American Battle Monuments Commission (ABMC).
Bennett will be buried on a date yet to be determined, in Pensacola, Florida.
For family and funeral information, contact the Army Casualty Office at (800) 892-2490.
DPAA is grateful to the ABMC and the United States Army for their partnership in this mission.
For additional information on the Defense Department’s mission to account for Americans who went missing while serving our country, visit the DPAA website at www.dpaa.mil, find us on social media at www.facebook.com/dodpaa or https://www.linkedin.com/company/defense-pow-mia-accounting-agency.
Bennett’s personnel profile can be viewed at https://dpaa-mil.sites.crmforce.mil/dpaaProfile?id=a0Jt0000000XfG4EAK.
From: DPAA NCR OC
Mailbox Public Affairs <dpaa.ncr.oc.mbx.public-affairs@mail.mil>
Sent: 18 January, 2023 11:23
To: Undisclosed recipients:
Subject: DPAA News Release - Tennessee Soldier Accounted For From
WWII
Greetings,
Pfc. Wilson was accounted for in September, but his family only recently received their full briefing on his identification, which is why this release is going out now.
Jan. 18, 2023
WASHINGTON—The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Army Pfc. Mark P. Wilson, 20, of Elizabethton, Tennessee killed during World War II, was accounted for Sept. 12, 2022.
In November 1944, Wilson was assigned to Company A, 1st Battalion, 112th Infantry Regiment, 28th Infantry Division. His battalion had been tasked with holding the town of Kommerscheidt, Germany, in the Hürtgen Forest, when he was reported missing in action on Nov. 8. His body unable to be recovered, and the Germans never reported him as a prisoner of war. He was declared killed in action after the war.
Following the end of the war, the American Graves Registration Command was tasked with investigating and recovering missing American personnel in Europe. They conducted several investigations in the Hürtgen area between 1946 and 1950, but were unable to recover or identify Wilson’s remains. He was declared non-recoverable in November 1951.
While studying unresolved American losses in the Hürtgen area, a DPAA historian determined that one set of unidentified remains, designated X-5433 Neuville, recovered Kommerscheidt in April 1947, possibly belonged to Wilson. The remains, which had been buried in Ardennes American Cemetery, an American Battle Monuments Commission site in Neuville-en-Condroz, Belgium, in 1949, were disinterred in July 2021 and sent to the DPAA laboratory at Offutt Air Force Base, Nebraska, for identification.
To identify Wilson’s remains, scientists from DPAA used anthropological analysis, as well as circumstantial evidence. Additionally, scientists from the Armed Forces Medical Examiner System used mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA), Y chromosome DNA (Y-STR), and autosomal DNA (auSTR) analysis.
Wilson’s name is recorded on the Tablets of the Missing at Henri-Chapelle American Cemetery, an American Battle Monuments Commission site in Plombières, Belgium, along with the others still missing from World War II. A rosette will be placed next to his name to indicate he has been accounted for.
Wilson will be buried in Arlington National Cemetery on a date yet to be determined.
For family and funeral information, contact the Army Casualty Office at (800) 892-2490.
DPAA is grateful to the American Battle Monuments Commission and to the U.S. Army Regional Mortuary-Europe/Africa for their partnership in this mission.
For additional information on the Defense Department’s mission to account for Americans who went missing while serving our country, visit the DPAA website at www.dpaa.mil, find us on social media at www.facebook.com/dodpaa or https://www.linkedin.com/company/defense-pow-mia-accounting-agency.
Wilson’s personnel profile can be viewed at https://dpaa-mil.sites.crmforce.mil/dpaaProfile?id=a0Jt000000iGIRbEAO.
From: DPAA NCR OC
Mailbox Public Affairs <dpaa.ncr.oc.mbx.public-affairs@mail.mil>
Sent: 17 January, 2023 10:17
To: Undisclosed recipients:
Subject: DPAA News Release - Missouri Airman Accounted For From
WWII
Greetings,
1St Lt. Meyer was accounted for in September, but his family only recently received their full briefing on his identification, which is why this release is going out now.
Jan. 17, 2023
WASHINGTON—The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Army Air Forces 1st Lt. Melvin B. Meyer, 25, of Pattonville, Missouri, killed during World War II, was accounted for on Sept. 9, 2022.
In May 1944, Meyer was assigned to the 569th Bombardment Squadron, 390th Bombardment Group (Heavy), 13th Bombardment Wing, 3rd Air Division, 8th Air Force. He was the bombardier of a B-17G Flying Fortress bomber during a huge bombing mission over Leipzig, Germany, on May 29. Enemy fighters attacked the bomber’s formation roughly 28 miles northeast Leipzig, and the plane was shot down. Six of the 10 crew members were able to escape the plane before it crashed near Horst, while the rest, including Meyer, were killed. Bodies recovered from the crash were believed to have been buried in a local cemetery. After the war ended, there was no evidence of Meyer being a prisoner of war or having survived, so a Finding of Death was issued a year after the crash.
The American Graves Registration Command (AGRC) was charged with recovering the remains of fallen service members in the European Theater following the war. They were able to find the remains of one of the crew members buried in a cemetery in Horst during a search in September 1946. After 1950, worsening diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union, who controlled this part of Germany at the time, prevented the AGRC from investigating further. Meyer was declared non-recoverable on April 21, 1953.
In July 2012, an investigation team from the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command, a DPAA predecessor organization, found the crash site and recovered evidence of a B-17 crash. In 2015, DPAA received permission from the land-owner to excavate. DPAA contracted History Flight, Inc. to excavate the site, which they did between July 17 and Aug. 12, 2019. They recovered possible material evidence and possible remains, which was first turned over to the local authorities and then sent to the DPAA Laboratory at Offutt Air Force Base, Nebraska, for scientific analysis.
To identify Meyer’s remains, scientists from DPAA used dental and anthropological analysis, as well as circumstantial and material evidence. Additionally, scientists from the Armed Forces Medical Examiner System used mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) analysis.
Meyer’s name is recorded on the Tablets of the Missing at the Henri-Chapelle American Cemetery, an American Battle Monuments Commission site in Hombourg, Belgium, along with the others still missing from World War II. A rosette will be placed next to his name to indicate he has been accounted for.
Meyer will be buried in St. Louis, Missouri on a date yet to be determined.
For family and funeral information, contact the Army Casualty Office at (800) 892-2490.
DPAA is grateful to History Flight, Inc. for their partnership in this mission.
For additional information on the Defense Department’s mission to account for Americans who went missing while serving our country, visit the DPAA website at www.dpaa.mil, or find us on social media at www.facebook.com/dodpaa or https://www.linkedin.com/company/defense-pow-mia-accounting-agency.
Meyer’s personnel profile can be viewed at https://dpaa-mil.sites.crmforce.mil/dpaaProfile?id=a0Jt000001h3KY6EAM.
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Lima World War II Pilot Shot
Down In Germany Identified - Mercer County Outlook
On September 9, 2022, the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA) identified the remains of First
Lieutenant Carl D. Nesbitt of Lima,Ohio, ...
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Weekly Column: Bring Our Heroes
Home Act | U.S. Senator Mike Crapo
Some years ago, then-POW*MIA
Awareness Corp. Director Hiedi Young shared biographies
she prepared of those eight Idahoans, listed below, at a
rally I ...
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The slain soldiers - Allen Leftridge (pictured with his wife) and Frank Glenn (not pictured) - were challenged by the sergeant for the breach of norms, the archived documents show, and then ruthlessly gunned down by another officer as punishment. Despite the illegality of the action and several witnesses seeing the murders firsthand, the killer - an unnamed American soldier - was cleared and one of the men's widows denied a survivor's pension. The altercation also saw a third soldier - a white man just released from a German prison camp - killed in the crossfire, the two white soldiers involved in the murders, which took place on the war-torn Western front in 1945, absolved of their actions. Previously long-forgotten, the duo's story is now being told thanks in part to that woman, the late Sarah Leftridge, who shared the harrowing account with a black journalist who would eventually married her.
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A Father's Gold Star Story
- RealClearDefense
He was selected to receive the
Medal of Honor for combat bravery in 2008. In
Defend Us in Battle: The True Story of MA2 Navy SEAL
Medal of Honor ...
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Korean War wall of names is
said to be riddled with errors, omissions.
Ambrosio Guillen, 23, who was
posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for
valor, is misspelled Guilien. He was killed in
battle on July 25, 1953.
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Remains from the National
Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific—or "Punchbowl"—were exhumed
between June and November of 2015 for analysis. According to
a ...
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Remains of Ohio pilot shot
down in WWII identified | National | heraldpalladium.com
... according to the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency. German fighters attacked the
bomber's formation roughly 28 miles northeast of
Leipzig, ...
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Shot Down in 1944, 'Yankee
Doodle Dandy' B-17 Pilot Flies Home - Coffee or Die Magazine
On Thursday, Jan. 12, the Defense
POW/MIA Account Agency announced that the
remains of US Army Air Force 1st Lt. Carl D. Nesbitt
will be buried ...
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Never Forgotten Ohio Pilot
of B-17G Flying Fortress Identified - Scioto Post
In May 1944, Nesbitt was assigned to
the 569th Bombardment Squadron, 390th Bombardment
Group (Heavy), 13th Bombardment Wing, 3rd Air
Division, 8th Air ...
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Sailor Accounted For From WW II
(Di Petta, A.)
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Navy
Aviation Ordnanceman First Class Anthony Di Petta, 24,
killed during ...
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72 Years Later Remains Of Fighter
Pilot Shot Down In WWII Identified - California Examiner
According to the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency, 1st Lt. Carl Nesbitt flew a B-17 Flying
Fortress bomber on May 29, 1944, during a massive ...
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Remains of Ohio fighter pilot
shot down in WWII identified - WANE 15
Authorities have positively identified
the remains of an Army Air Forces pilot from Ohio who
died when his plane was shot down over Germany
during ...
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Remains of fighter pilot shot
down in WWII identified - Military Times
Defense Department officials say 1st Lt.
Carl D. Nesbitt died when his plane was shot down during
a bombing mission over Leipzig, Germany in May ...
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Remains of Ohio fighter pilot
shot down over Germany in World War II identified - CBS News
Six of the 10 crew members were able to
escape the plane before it crashed, while pilot Carl
Nesbitt and the rest were killed.
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Ohio pilot killed in WWII
identified over 78 years after his death - ABC 6
The remains of a 23-year-old pilot
from Ohio who was presumed dead after his bomber
plane was shot down in 1944 have been identified.
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Remains of Ohio fighter
pilot shot down in WWII identified - AP News
LIMA, Ohio (AP) — Authorities have
positively identified the remains of an Army Air
Forces pilot from Ohio who died when his plane was
shot down ...
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Ohio Pilot accounted for
from WW2 - WRGT
OHIO (WKEF) -The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S.
Army Air Forces 1st Lt. Carl D. Nesbitt, 23, of
Lima, Ohio, ...
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Remains of Lima man killed
in World War II identified - WDTN.com
The DPAA said Nesbitt was a pilot of
a B-17G Flying Fortress bomber during a bombing
mission over Leipzig, Germany when the aircraft was
shot down.
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Remains of Ohio fighter
pilot shot down in WWII identified - Manistee News Advocate
On May 29, 1944, 1st Lt. Carl Nesbitt
was the pilot of a B-17G Flying Fortress bomber
during a huge bombing mission over Leipzig, Germany,
according ...
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Russia releases US Navy
veteran who crossed border - KXAN
WASHINGTON (AP) — Russia has
released a U.S. Navy veteran who apparently
illegally crossed the border from Poland into the
Russian exclave of ...
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Russia Released US Navy
Veteran Quietly Detained for 9 Months - The New York Times
The veteran, Taylor Dudley, had
traveled to Poland to attend a music festival and
“at some point crossed the Russian border,” a family
spokesman ...
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Film Helps Renew Search for
1st Black Navy Pilot's Remains - NBC New York
Biden Bestows Medal of Honor
on 94-Year-Old Korean War Veteran. “He's never had a
full sort of burial with that with the pomp and
circumstance ...
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Film helps renew search for
1st Black Navy pilot's remains - The Washington Post
... met members of Brown's family at
the 2018 funeral of Hudner, who received the
Medal of Honor after attempting to rescue Brown.
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Navy vet Taylor Dudley released
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Remains of Vietnam War
soldier killed in helicopter crash identified - Army Times
(Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency). The remains of an American
soldier killed in a helicopter crash during the
Vietnam War have been identified, ...
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Remains of Vietnam War
soldier killed in helicopter crash identified | Stars and
Stripes
Pfc. Thomas F. Green's remains
were recovered in June 2021 and identified by
forensic and DNA evidence in August, according
to the Defense POW-MIA ...
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Lost During Ploesti
Raid, Liberator Gunner Finally Flying Home -
RealClearDefense
Sgt. Harold Kretzer is finally
flying home to Illinois. On Friday, Jan. 6, the
Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency
announ.
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From: DPAA NCR OC
Mailbox Public Affairs <dpaa.ncr.oc.mbx.public-affairs@mail.mil>
Sent: 12 January, 2023 11:01
To: Undisclosed recipients:
Subject: DPAA News Release - Ohio Pilot Accounted For From WWII
Greetings,
1st LT Nesbit was accounted for in September, but his family only recently received their full briefing on his identification, which is why this release is going out now.
Jan. 12, 2023
WASHINGTON—The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Army Air Forces 1st Lt. Carl D. Nesbitt, 23, of Lima, Ohio, killed during World War II, was accounted for on Sept. 9, 2022.
In May 1944, Nesbitt was assigned to the 569th Bombardment Squadron, 390th Bombardment Group (Heavy), 13th Bombardment Wing, 3rd Air Division, 8th Air Force. He was the pilot of a B-17G Flying Fortress bomber during a huge bombing mission over Leipzig, Germany, on May 29. Enemy fighters attacked the bomber’s formation roughly 28 miles northeast Leipzig, and the plane was shot down. Six of the 10 crew members were able to escape the plane before it crashed near Horst, while the rest, including Nesbitt, were killed. Bodies recovered from the crash were believed to have been buried in a local cemetery. After the war ended, there was no evidence of Nesbitt being a prisoner of war or having survived, so a Finding of Death was issued a year after the crash.
The American Graves Registration Command (AGRC) was charged with recovering the remains of fallen service members in the European Theater following the war. They were able to find the remains of one of the crew members buried in a cemetery in Horst during a search in September 1946. After 1950, worsening diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union, who controlled this part of Germany at the time, prevented the AGRC from investigating further. Nesbitt was declared non-recoverable on April 21, 1953.
In July 2012, an investigation team from the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command, a DPAA predecessor organization, found the crash site and recovered evidence of a B-17 crash. In 2015, DPAA received permission from the land-owner to excavate. DPAA contracted History Flight, Inc. to excavate the site, which they did between July 17 and Aug. 12, 2019. They recovered possible material evidence and possible remains, which was first turned over to the local authorities and then sent to the DPAA Laboratory at Offutt Air Force Base, Nebraska, for scientific analysis.
To identify Nesbitt’s remains, scientists from DPAA used dental and anthropological analysis, as well as circumstantial and material evidence. Additionally, scientists from the Armed Forces Medical Examiner System used mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) analysis.
Nesbitt’s name is recorded on the Tablets of the Missing at the Henri-Chapelle American Cemetery, an American Battle Monuments Commission site in Hombourg, Belgium, along with the others still missing from World War II. A rosette will be placed next to his name to indicate he has been accounted for.
Nesbitt will be buried on May 15, 2023, in Annville, Pennsylvania.
For family and funeral information, contact the Army Casualty Office at (800) 892-2490.
DPAA is grateful to History Flight, Inc. for their partnership in this mission.
For additional information on the Defense Department’s mission to account for Americans who went missing while serving our country, visit the DPAA website at www.dpaa.mil, or find us on social media at www.facebook.com/dodpaa or https://www.linkedin.com/company/defense-pow-mia-accounting-agency.
Nesbitt’s personnel profile can be viewed https://dpaa-mil.sites.crmforce.mil/dpaaProfile?id=a0Jt000001h3KXwEAM
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Remains of Army Air Forces
airman killed in WWII identified
(Defense POW/MIA Accounting
Agency). An American service member killed in a large
bombing mission in Romania during World War II has
been ...
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Why the Skilcraft Pen Has Been Used by the Military for 55 Years |
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A Korean War Wall of
Remembrance Set Hundreds of Errors in Stone - The New York Times
In another case, a Navy plane
collided with an Air Force plane off Japan, ...
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Monday, 09 January 2023 02:30 PM EST
A somber monument for Korean War veterans has more than 36,000 names, but it's becoming infamous for something else it reveals — hundreds of mistakes.
Hal Barker, a historian, and his brother Edward "Ted" Barker Jr. oversee an online repository of data about the war through the Korean War Project. Hal told The New York Times the $22 million wall is a "damn mess — full of old bookkeeping errors and typos."
The Barkers told the Times the monument contains more than a thousand spelling errors and hundreds of mistakes. And they believe there are approximately 500 names that should be listed but are not.....
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Lost During Ploesti
Raid, Liberator Gunner Finally Flying Home - Coffee or Die
Magazine
Harold Kretzer died during the
bloody 1943 raid on the oil refinery complex at
Ploesti, Romania, but on Jan. 6, 2023, the the
Defense POW/MIA ...
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Sailor Accounted For
From WW II (Di Petta, A.)
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that
U.S. Navy Aviation Ordnanceman First Class
Anthony Di Petta, 24, killed during ...
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From:
Fowler, Michael G CIV DPAA EC (USA) <michael.g.fowler2.civ@mail.mil>
Sent: 6 January, 2023 16:23
To: Undisclosed recipients:
Subject: Dec 15 Family/VSO Quarterly Update Notes
Dear Family Organizations and VSOs,
Attached are the notes from the December 15, 2022 Quarterly Update call. We apologize for the delay but several people were on leave. These notes will also be posted to our website at: https://www.dpaa.mil/Resources/Family-VSO-Update-Notes/
We hope you will find this information helpful in keeping our families and your membership apprised of our efforts to account for our missing.
Thank you again for your participation.
Mike
Mike Fowler
Outreach & Communications
Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency
703-357-5817
michael.g.fowler2.civ@mail.mil
From:
DPAA NCR OC Mailbox Public Affairs <dpaa.ncr.oc.mbx.public-affairs@mail.mil>
Sent: 6 January, 2023 10:41
To: Undisclosed recipients:
Subject: DPAA News Release - Illinois Airman Accounted For From
WWII
Greetings,
Tech Sgt. Kretzer was accounted for in August, but his family only recently received their full briefing on his identification, which is why this release is going out now.
Jan. 6, 2023
WASHINGTON—The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Army Air Forces Tech. Sgt. Harold Kretzer, 32, of Odin, Illinois, killed during World War II, was accounted for Aug. 23, 2022.
In the summer of 1943, Kretzer was assigned to the 66th Bombardment Squadron (Heavy), 44th Bombardment Group (Heavy), 8th Air Force. On Aug. 1, 1943, the B-24 Liberator bomber on which Kretzer was a gunner-engineer was hit by enemy anti-aircraft fire and crashed during Operation TIDAL WAVE, the largest bombing mission against the oil fields and refineries at Ploiesti, north of Bucharest, Romania. His remains were not identified following the war. The remains that could not be identified were buried as Unknowns in the Hero Section of the Civilian and Military Cemetery of Bolovan, Ploiesti, Prahova, Romania.
Following the war, the American Graves Registration Command (AGRC), the organization that searched for and recovered fallen American personnel, disinterred all American remains from the Bolovan Cemetery for identification. The AGRC was unable to identify more than 80 unknowns from Bolovan Cemetery, and those remains were permanently interred at Ardennes American Cemetery and Henri-Chapelle American Cemetery, both in Belgium.
In 2017, DPAA began exhuming unknowns believed to be associated with unaccounted-for airmen from Operation TIDAL WAVE losses. These remains were sent to the DPAA Laboratory at Offutt Air Force Base, Nebraska, for examination and identification.
To identify Kretzer’s remains, scientists from DPAA used anthropological analysis, as well as circumstantial evidence. Additionally, scientists from the Armed Forces Medical Examiner System used mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) and Y chromosome DNA (Y-STR) analysis.
Kretzer’s name is recorded on the Tablets of the Missing at the Florence American Cemetery, an American Battle Monuments Commission site in Impruneta, Italy, along with others still missing from WWII. A rosette will be placed next to his name to indicate he has been accounted for.
Kretzer will be buried in Springfield, Illinois on a date yet to be determined.
For family and funeral information, contact the Army Casualty Office at (800) 892-2490.
DPAA is grateful to the American Battle Monuments Commission and to the U.S. Army Regional Mortuary-Europe/Africa for their partnership in this mission.
For additional information on the Defense Department’s mission to account for Americans who went missing while serving our country, visit the DPAA website at www.dpaa.mil or find us on social media at www.facebook.com/dodpaa or https://www.linkedin.com/company/defense-pow-mia-accounting-agency.
Kretzer’s personnel profile can be viewed at https://dpaa-mil.sites.crmforce.mil/dpaaProfile?id=a0Jt000001MvtWWEAZ.
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Troops recently accounted for from
past conflicts include USS Oklahoma, bomber crew members
The remains of U.S. Army Air Forces
1st Lt. Roy Harms, 26, of Grafton, Wis., were identified by the
Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency on Aug.
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Wyoming sailor's remains
identified | News | wyomingnews.com
Since 2015, the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency has identified the remains of six
other fallen soldiers from Wyoming, including three who
were ...
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Columbia WW2 veteran's
remains identified by federal agency after 79 years | Military
Digest
U.S. Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency. Subscribe today! COLUMBIA —
Nearly 80 years after he went missing in action, the
remains of a Columbia ...
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Burial Planned for
Battleship Oklahoma Sailor, MIA for 81 Years - Coffee or
Die Magazine
A sailor killed on board the
battleship Oklahoma during the Japanese raid on
Pearl Harbor 81 years ago has been identified. The
Defense POW/MIA ...
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Remains Of US Navy Crewman
From Sheridan Killed In Pearl Harbor Attack Found
The Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced on Tuesday,
January 3rd, that Navy Gunner's Mate 3rd Class
Herman Schmidt, 28, of Sheridan, ...
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Family awaits ID of missing
Iowa WWII Navy aviator - The Gazette
For more information about the
Defense POW-MIA Accounting Agency,
visit
www.dpaa.mil. Pat Kinney is oral historian at
the Grout Museum District in ...
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Wyoming sailor's remains
identified | News | buffalobulletin.com
Since 2015, the Defense POW/
MIA Accounting Agency has identified the
remains of six other fallen soldiers from Wyoming,
including three who were ...
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Wyoming man's remains
identified more than 80 years after death at Pearl Harbor - KTVQ
Until 2015, when the Department of
Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA)
was tasked with exhuming and analyzing the rest of
the remains buried ...
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Wyoming sailor's remains
identified | State and Regional - JHNewsAndGuide.com
Since 2015, the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency has identified the remains of six
other fallen soldiers from Wyoming.
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https://www.military.com/daily-news/2023/01/02/missouri-man-devotes-time-recording-veteran-oral-histories.html?ESRC=eb_230103.nl
Missouri Man Devotes Time to Recording Veteran Oral Histories
Retired Col. Milt Toratti, 80, has spent his retirement years pursuing a passion that he first developed at the age of 13: documenting the lives and careers of ex-military men and women.
When Toratti was 13, he interviewed a 109-year-old Civil War veteran for a school project. From then on, he discovered he had both a talent and a passion for capturing these stories, writing them down and sharing them....
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Slain South Dakota airman
among 3 WWII POWs ID'd, returned from Lithuanian camp
After decades of fruitless diplomatic
efforts, the bodies were found and returned to the
U.S. in 2021 for identification at the Defense
POW/MIA ...
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From: DPAA NCR OC
Mailbox Public Affairs <dpaa.ncr.oc.mbx.public-affairs@mail.mil>
Sent: 3 January, 2023 13:56
To: Undisclosed recipients:
Subject: DPAA News Release - USS Oklahoma Sailor From Wyoming
Accounted For From WWII
Greetings,
GM3c Schmidt was accounted for on Jan. 13, 2021, but his family only recently received their full briefing on his identification, which is why this release is going out now.
Jan. 3, 2023
WASHINGTON—The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that Navy Gunner’s Mate 3rd Class Herman Schmidt, 28, of Sheridan, Wyoming, killed during World War II, was accounted for on Jan. 13, 2021.
On Dec. 7, 1941, Schmidt was assigned to the battleship USS Oklahoma, which was moored at Ford Island, Pearl Harbor, when the ship was attacked by Japanese aircraft. The USS Oklahoma sustained multiple torpedo hits, which caused it to quickly capsize. The attack on the ship resulted in the deaths of 429 crewmen, including Schmidt.
From December 1941 to June 1944, Navy personnel recovered the remains of the deceased crew, which were subsequently interred in the Halawa and Nu’uanu Cemeteries.
In September 1947, tasked with recovering and identifying fallen U.S. personnel in the Pacific Theater, members of the American Graves Registration Service (AGRS) disinterred the remains of U.S. casualties from the two cemeteries and transferred them to the Central Identification Laboratory at Schofield Barracks. The laboratory staff was only able to confirm the identifications of 35 men from the USS Oklahoma at that time. The AGRS subsequently buried the unidentified remains in 46 plots at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific (NMCP), known as the Punchbowl, in Honolulu. In October 1949, a military board classified those who could not be identified as non-recoverable, including Schmidt.
Between June and November 2015, DPAA personnel exhumed the USS Oklahoma Unknowns from the Punchbowl for analysis.
To identify Schmidt’s remains, scientists from DPAA used dental and anthropological analysis. Additionally, scientists from the Armed Forces Medical Examiner System used mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA), Y chromosome DNA (Y-STR), and autosomal DNA (auSTR) analysis.
Schmidt’s name is recorded on the Walls of the Missing at the Punchbowl, along with the others who are missing from WWII. A rosette will be placed next to his name to indicate he has been accounted for.
Schmidt will be buried in Arlington National Cemetery, on a date yet to be determined.
For family and funeral information, contact the Navy Service Casualty office at (800) 443-9298.
DPAA is grateful to the Department of Veterans Affairs and the Department of the Navy for their partnership in this mission.
For additional information on the Defense Department’s mission to account for Americans who went missing while serving our country, visit the DPAA website at www.dpaa.mil, find us on social media at www.facebook.com/dodpaa or https://www.linkedin.com/company/defense-pow-mia-accounting-agency.
Schmidt’s personnel profile can be viewed at https://dpaa.secure.force.com/dpaaProfile?id=a0Jt0000000XgQiEAK.
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